Joseph
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Psychic Perception :
The Magic of Extrasensory Power
BOOKS BY
DR. JOSEPH MURPHY
The Amazing Laws of Cosmic Mind Power
Collected Essays of Joseph Murphy
The Cosmic Energizer: Miracle Power of the Universe
The Cosmic Power within You
Great Bible Truths for Human Problems
How to Attract Money
How to Pray with a Deck of Cards
How to Use the Laws of Mind
How to Use Your Healing Power
Infinite Power for Richer Living
Living without Strain
The Miracle of Mind Dynamics
Miracle Power for lnfinita Riches
Peace within Yourself
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Pray Your Way through It
Prayer ls the Answer
Psychic Perception: The Meaning of Extrasensory Power
Quiet Moments with God
Secrets of the I Ching
Songs of God
Special Meditations for Health, Wealth, Love, and Expression
Telepsychics: Tapping Your Hidden Subconscious Powers
These Truths Can Change Your Life
Within You ls the Power
Write a New Name in the Book of Life
Your Infinite Power to be Rich
Psychic Perception:
The Magic of
Extrasensory Power
Joseph Murphy, DD., D.RS., PhD., LLD.
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DEVORSS Publications
Copyright©
1971
by Parker Publishing Company, Inc.
West Nyack, New York
Copyright transferred
to Jean
L.
Murphy
October
1995
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First DeVorss Edition, 1996
ISBN 0-87516-670-9
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What This Book Can Do for You
Everyone possesses psychic power, and can be presently
aware of events and experiences transcending the five senses.
You can easily learn to use these extraordinary psychic
powers to benefit your daily living to an extent that will
amaze you.
Vast numbers of people in all walks of life are constantly
dealing with such powers as clairvoyance, whereby one
perceives things and situations at a distance ; precognition,
which is the ability to see future events as happening now in
one's mind; telepathy, where one communicates mentally
with others, collapsing time and space limitations; and retro­
cognition, which is the ability to see events in the past . All of
these powers are latent in all of us.
You will read in this book how a great many people, by
using extrasensory or psychic perception, saved the lives of
loved ones, how they prevented accidents or financial disas­
ters to themselves, and much more of vital significance in
complex daily living.
Why You Need This Book
This book teaches you how to meet and overcome the
challenges, difficulties, trials, and other problems of daily
living. It explains how to contact the Infinite Healing Pre­
sence within you, and supplies you with specific techniques
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for putting your extrasensory powers into operation at once
for your practical benefit.
It is for the express purpose of teaching you , the reader,
how to align and usi> these extraordinary and perceptive
psychic powers in your daily life that I wrote this book. I
have endeavored on every page to explain extrasensory
perception and healing; premonitions; how dreams avert
tragedies; clairaudience ; how dreams have brought fortunes
,- into the lives of people ; precognition ; techniques for eradica­
ting negative predictions ; astral travel; psychic perception;
and the law of plenty in all its aspects, including the financial
ones.
What Psychic Perception
Has Done for Others
I have taught and written about dreams, clairvoyance,
out-of-the-body experiences, and other miracle-working
powers of the mind for over 30 years, here and abroad . All
my life I have had psychic experiences and have perceived
events long before they happened, in some instances 20 years
before. I have witnessed and heard of the following tremen­
dous changes in the lives of countless numbers of people who
sincerely used their extrasensory powers:
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- Wealth bestowed in avalanches of abundance
- Discoveries of hidden treasure
- Psychic healing of maladies thought incurable
- Locating long-lost friends and relatives
- Specific and valuable benefits of astral travel and outof-the-body experiences
- Lives saved through psychic impressions of impending
danger
- Public acclaim, honor, and recognition
- Dreams revealing amazing answers to daily problems
- Happier marriages and more zestful daily living
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- New ideas for sales programs, sound business develop­
ment
- The prevention of many unnecessary tragedies
- And, above all, the joyous satisfaction of the answered
desire for psychic awareness in handling the problems
of daily living, in all its ramifications, successfully.
Psychic Perception Operates in
All Walks of Life and at All Levels
According to my observations and experience, the men,
women, and teenagers who use extrasensory perception in
their daily lives come from every level of society and from
every possible income bracket. They are taxi drivers, house­
wives, stenographers, doctors, students, college professors,
motion picture stars, chiropractors, pharmacists, space scien­
tists, and truck drivers-to name just a few of those who have
found perceptive awareness of their psychic abilities to
benefit them daily in a real and concrete way. These people
have discovered the wonders of disciplined imagination;
banished their sense of loneliness and harmful obsessions;
established the mental equivalent of a million dollars in their
subconscious mind; through previsions of impending trage­
dies for themselves and others were able t o avoid them;
solved legal problems; gained freedom from the fear of
so-called voodoo or evil eye or psychic attack and achieved
peace of mind and confidence to handle any situation for a
great new life.
Unique Features of This Book
The unique features of this book are its down-to-earth
practicality and everyday utility. You will learn to use your
inborn e xtraordinary ability to visualize future events, and, if
they are indicated to be negative, change them through
scientific prayer. You will learn how to develop your intui­
tion and other psychic powers which will set you on the fast
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What This Book Can D o for You
high road to happiness, peace of mind, and freedom from
limitation of any sort.
How the Infinite Healing Presence
Answers You in Dreams and
Visions of the Night
You will read in this book fascinating accounts of out-of­
the-body experiences, sometimes called extrasensory or astral
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traveling; clairvoyance; clairaudience ; how to make extra­
sensory perception work for you ; how spiritually advanced
individuals can appear and reappear to others at will; com­
munication with loved ones in the spirit world; the pros and
cons of reincarnation and why the author explodes the
< popular myths about k arma, life cycles, child prodigies,
memories of former lives, inequality at birth, the handi­
capped, the so-called unfortunate. The chapter on reincarna­
- tion will heal you of the age-old taboos, strictures, grievous
P- bondage and thralldom that shackle you to frustration and
repeated failure.
Let Wonders Happen in Your Life- Beginning Now!
The greatest working truths in life are the simplest. In this
book, I have taken a new look at reincarnation and communi­
cation with the so-called dead, and I have presented these
great truths with the maximum of simplicity and dramatic
clarity to help your powers of psychic perception.
This book will show you how to solve your problems of
daily living and receive guidance and the blessings that come
with true awareness. Begin now, today, to let wonders
happen in your life! Keep on using this book until the day
breaks for you with the light of psychic perception-giving
you undisputed dominion over your life the way you want to
live it.
The Author
Table of Contents
What This Book Can Do for You
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How to Become Aware of the Psychic Power of Your Mind .
You are Psychic
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A Thanksgiving Phone Call
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An Extraordinary Answer to Her Ques-
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Loneliness
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A Dream
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The Psychic Perception Banishes
The One-Word Magic Formula
Word Formula; It Works
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How a Secretary Used the One­
How to Develop Psychic Perception
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The Psychic Powers Within You
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Developing Your Psychic Powers
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How to Reverse the
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Obituary Notice Before It Happened
Messages to a Lecturer
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She Said, "I am Leaving this World."
American Society of Mathematics
Out of the Blue and Found the Will
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Called Dead Is a Common Experience
She Heard a Voice
Talking to the So­
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An Army Officer
Hears His Brother's Voice: "You Will Be Saved"
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How to Use Extrasensory Perception in Everyday Life
At the Moment of Transition She Appeared to Me
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Extrasensory Transmission Solves a Legal
Extrasensory Communication Joins Two Lov-
Extrasensory
Protection Against Voodoo
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How You Can Release the Psychic Powers Within You . .. .49
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Extrasensory Drama Re-enacted and Witnessed by a Doctor •
Listen to the Perceptive Flashes of Intuition from Your
Subconscious Mind
Imagined
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She Discovered the Healing Presence Within
Recognizing the Intuitive Feeling of Your Subcon-
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His Inner Voice Saved His Life
Develop Your Intuition
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Sales Program or Your Business
Not Acknowledge Your Hunches
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You Can
Two Reasons You May
The Cultivation of Your
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Intuitive Faculty Is of Paramount Importance
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How to Get a New Idea for Your
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Extrasensory Travel and Out-of-the-Body Experiences . . .
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Extrasensory Travel to Syd-
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Daughter • New York Detective Solves Case Through
Extrasensory Travel
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She Knows Her Son Is Alive
Reveals Lost Topaz
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Extrasensory Perception
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Extrasensory Perception
Dr. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby of
Maine Experiments with Clairvoyance and Extrasensory
Travel in May,
1862
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Dr. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby's
Experiment in Travelling Clairvoyance
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How a Mother's Prayer Saved Her Son's Foot
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How a
Wife's Dream of Her Husband's Heart Attack Helped Avert
a Tragedy • How Clairaudience Saved a Platoon of
Soldiers • Extrasensory Perception and Healing in the
Bible • The Dying Man Sat Up and Began to Speak
• The Resurrection of the So-Called Dead • The Woman
Refused to Consult a Doctor of Medicine • Why You
Should Honor the Physician • Why the Atheist Had a
Remarkable Healing at a Shrine • Points to Remember
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Why You Will Live Forever
Life Is Progression
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Man Talks to His Father, Mother and Son in the Next
Dimension
You Are
Your Departed Loved Ones Are Right Where
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Eradicate That Hypnotic Spell
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What the Poets
Have Said About the Next Dimension of Life
parted Father Returns and Corrects a Wrong
Give the Oil of Joy for Mourning
Vibration
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Entering Into a Higher
Points to Remember
How Extrasensory Perception Reveals Answers in Dreams.. . .101
The Meaning of the Symbols in Your Dreams
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The Dream
Reveals a Small Fortune in Dollar Bills
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Prevented a Great Psychological Shock
The Reason for
Her Dreams
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There Are Many Types of Dreams
Real Cause of This Woman's Prescience
ception is Activated in Sleep
Something New
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Extrasensory Per­
How to Invent and Discover
Points to Remember
How Your Psychic Mind Solves Problems Through
Dream Impressions . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
The Television Set of His Mind Revealed the Answer
Her Dream Saved Her Life
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The Reason for Her Dream
Motor Trip
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How
Her Special Prayer Program
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He Said, "l Never Dream"
Saved Her from a Serious Operation
Subconscious Selected the Hexagram
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Her Dream
The Reason Her
An Artist Attributes
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Her Success to Entering the Subjective State at Will • He
Listened to the Inner Monitor and Saved His Life • Points
to Remember
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Extrasensory Perception and Your Subconscious . . . . . . . . . 119
Your Character Can Be Delineated
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How She Neutralized
the Negative Prediction of an Accident
How She Prayed
and Affirmed in a Definite Manner
Her Technique for
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Eradicating the Negative Prediction
How to Learn to
Shape and Mold Your Own Destiny • How You Can Overcome the Law of Averages
How to Predict a Wonderful
Life for Yourself
How an Indian Boy Stopped the Flow
of Blood
Why He Had to Be Present to Heal
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The Dynamic Power of Psychic Thought
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How He Proved the Power of Thought
Get Acquainted
with the Most Powerful Force in the Universe
She Dis­
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covered the Wonders of Right Thinking
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A Famous Actor
Gets an Amazing Answer Through the Subconscious of
Another
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How She Activated Her Subconscious Mind
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How to Think (Pray) Successfully
Enables Her to Lose Forty Pounds
Thinker in Your Universe
Your Body
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Right Thinking
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You Are the Only
The Power of Thought on
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Begin to Use the Creative Power Wisely
Asked the Real Meaning of Thought and Thinking
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How to Use Secrets of Extrasensory Perception
in Solving Problems
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How Extrasensory Percep-
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He Employed
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How Tom Overcame His Nightmares
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Technique and Formula He Used to Banish His Frightful
Nightmares
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Don't
Ignore Your Dreams
How Ann's
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Extrasensory Powers Harmonized the Situation with Her
Associate
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How Ann Overcame the Hurdle
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How a Young
Lady Used Extrasensory Perception to Find Her Long-Lost
Father
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The Interesting Sequel to Her Astral Travel
She Functioned Outside Her Body
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How
Extrasensory Percep-
tion and the Man from Calcutta Who Saved His Daughter's
Life
The Nurse Heard Nobody in the Room
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How to Increase Your Wealth with Psychic Perception .
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How a Businessman Realized There Was Unlimited Wealth
for Him
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Your Invisible Means of Support
Her Success on Service
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The Law of Being Is Abundance
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How He Overcame His Arrearage in Rent and Overdrawn
Bank Account
A Fruitful Technique for Wealth and
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A Businessman Discovered Why Wealth Flowed
from Him Instead of to Him • The Magic Key to Wealth
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1 4. How Your Perception Brings You Wonders of
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How She Made the Impossible Possible
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How a Widow
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the Mental Equivalent of a Million Dollars
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How to
Become Acquainted with the Perceptive Designer Within
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Why He Called Perceptive Imagination the Workshop
of God
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How to Know the Mysterious Perceptive Powers
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What Experiences Reveal about Your Subconscious
Was Told He Was Possessed by a Devil
Heaven
Experiments
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Many Drank Water and
Students and How
Became Drunk
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Your
Auto­
Suggestion Can Prevent You from Being Hypnotized
Reason Why the Hypnotist Failed
from a So-Called Evil Spirit
Turmoil
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How Pat Described
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How She Was Freed
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The Cause of Her Inner
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How She Healed Herself and Experienced Peace of Mind
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How She Discovered Who Was Operating the Ouija Board
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A Street-Walker Speaks Like a Goddess
Get a Psychic Message from Yourself
ing Exceptions
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Oftentimes You
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16. How to Let Psychic Perception Work for You
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Boy Says Father Is Too Easy-Going
Raise Your Child
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The Special Prayer
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Let Psychic Perception
Why Permissiveness Is Always Wrong
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She Asked, "Why Aren't
You Must Possess a Psychic Insight
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into the Power of Your Words
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How to Keep God Alive
in Your Home • A Young Girl of 12 Talks to God and
Solves Her Problem • A Plan for Parents and Children
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How to Let Psychic Perception Make Your Desires
Come True
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How She Made Her Dream a Reality by Calling on Her
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Subconscious Mind
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A Clear-Cut Lead Came into Her
His Founda·
Mind
How Dave Built a Solid Foundation
tion Technique
His Reversed Attitude in Perception
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Brought Him Assets of a Quarter of a Million Dollars
"Movie" Technique
Career
She
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His
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His Facial Tic Was Ruining His
Have
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Be
Lonely
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The Psychic Perception of Your Past Lives
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Your Subconscious Reasons Deductively Only
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Sister
There Before
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Life-Principle
Before You Were Born?
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There Is Only One
Why Is an Innocent Child Born
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Reincarnation and Time
You Are What You Think All Day Long
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Young
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Where Did You Come from
Are Here to Learn the Laws of Life
Children
Tragedies?
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Accidents,
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The
Mystery
Look Back at Your Ancestry
New End
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Some Remarkable
ory
Why Is There Inequality at Birth?
Look at Justice
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Prodigies
What Is Biological
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What Is the
Why Do Infant Mathe·
matical Prodigies Lose Their Gift?
Realize a Great Truth
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Child
A New Beginning Is a
Your Genetic Record
What Is a Genius?
of
Cases
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The
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Why Some Children Are Born Blind, Deaf,
Averages?
Atavism?
and
The Law of Mind Is Good and Very Good
and Deformed and Others Are Born Healthy
of
You
Why Do Babies and
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She Said She Choked People in a Former Life
Explanation
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Why Is It Possible to Remember
Deaf, Lame, Blind, or Crippled?
Law
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An Experiment with Mr. X's
Anything That Has Ever Transpired?
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Why You May Say, "It Seems I Have
Always Known Him"
Cycles
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The Psychological Explanation of Having Been
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Being
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Have You Lived Before? .. Important Points to
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Recall
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An Inter·
esting Hypnotic Experiment Regarding Past Lives
Reason for the Failure
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Your Storehouse of Mem­
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How Some
You Are Not a Victim of Karma
to Accept Your Good Now
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Author's View of Reincarnation
Your Time Is Now
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How to Become Aware
of the Psychic Power of Your Mind
I am writing the first chapter of this book at the beautiful
Kona Inn overlooking the ocean on the island of Hawaii.
Hundreds of sailboats are to be seen on the ocean ; I took a
trip on one of the fishing boats yesterday . On the boat was a
little boy about 12 years old , who was learning to navigate it.
On telling him what I planned to do in the island -namely,
write a book on psychic principles-he told me that a month
ago when his father died on the island of Oahu, which is a
few hundred miles away, he knew it and ran in and told his
mother, "Mom, papa is dead. I saw him and talked to him."
His father's death was later confirmed by long distance
phone.
In the mind-principle, there is no time or space, and when
the father was passing over to the next dimension of life, he
'desired to let his family know it. His son, who was very
psychic and receptive, had picked up the father's telepathic..
message. The little boy also had a clairvoyant vision of hlS
father, who appeared to him and said, "Good-bye."
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It should be realized that every person has these psychic
capacities. They are more or less dormant, and are often
suppressed since they are frequently ridiculed by other mem­
bers of a family.
You Are Psychic
How often have you thought of a person and then heard
the phone ring, and, behold, you knew it was your friend
calling; or you may have sensed that someone close to you
needed
you and
when you
called
on
that person you
discovered that your intuitive sense was accurate.
Chatting this morning at breakfast, in one of the beautiful
Japanese restaurants here, with a man of Japanese parentage
born on the Island, I told him I was writing a book on
- psychic phenomena. He thereupon asked me if I could help a
girl who was slowly dying due to her belief that someone in
Tahiti had put the "fix" (a native curse) on her. We visited
her home and I spent a few hours talking to her, explaining
to her that suggestions of others had no power unless she
gave the other power, when it would then become auto­
suggestion, and that actually she was destroying herself. It
began to dawn on her that she was a victim of suggestion and
that her only enemy was the fear in her own mind. Job said,
The thing which I greatly feared has come upon me (Job)
3:25).
This girl had been brought up in a convent and had a good
religious background. I wrote down the following great truths:
If God be for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8 : 3 1 ) No
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man shall set on thee to hurt thee (Acts 18: 10). Nothing shall
by any means hurt you (Luke 1 0 : 19). There shall no evil
happen to the just (Proverbs 1 2: 2 1 ) . Neither shall any plague
come nigh thy dwelling (Psalm 9 1 : 10). They shall bear thee
up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foo t against a stone
(Psalm 9 1: 12). A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten
thousand at thy righ t hand; but it shall not come nigh thee
(Psalm 9 1 : 7).
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We recited these truths out loud together, and I suggested
to her that whenever fear thoughts came to her mind, she
should affirm immediately, "I am alive with the Life of
God. " The explanation was the cure, and much to the surprise
of my Japanese friend, she ate a hearty Thanksgivin g lunch
with us and j oked and laughed gaily. On parting, she said to
me, "Never will I doubt again that there is but One Power,
and that It moves for good." She is now bubbling over with
the j oy of life. Psychic perception into the cause of her
trouble gave her a new life.
This Thanksgiving morning I had planned to have breakfast
in the Kona Inn where I have been staying, but an over­
whelming urge came over me to walk up the street until I
came to a Japanese
restaurant
where
a
big
sign
said,
"Breakfast is now being served." And it was there that I met
the man who was seeking to help the above-mentioned girl.
He had tried everything in the way of medical and pastoral
counseling to no avail ; she would not listen to her counselors and doctors, insisting instead that she was doomed to die. He
was very depressed because he had planned to marry her.
This was psychic perception at work in my case, the
Infinite Intelligence of my subconscious mind acting on me
compelling me to go to that particular restaurant and meet
this agitated and disturbed soul and answer his problem. This
Creative Intelligence brought both of us together in Divine
order. Truly, "Man does not know the causes of his actions."
A Thanksgiving Phone Call
This afternoon
as I continued writing this chapter, I
received a phone call from the island of Maui. This was from an
old friend whom I had visited a few days ago as I flew from
Kona ·to Maui. She said that she had exciting news: that a
medical doctor whom we had prayed for and who was
incapacitated in bed had called her and said, "Somethin g
happened to me Tuesday A strange feeling came over me; I
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felt a healing force flowing through me." Today, my friend
says that this doctor is going out to a Thanksgiving lunch and
dinner and is perfectly all right.
This was psychic perception at work. In this beautiful
home ip Maui, where I was a guest, my hostess had said, "Let
us pray for a doctor friend of mine who hurt his back so
severely he can't work or walk and is lying incapacitated in
bed." We j oined together, praying as follows: "This doctor is
known in Divine Mind, which knows all things. The Infinite
Healing Presence which made him knows how to restore him
completely. The vitalizing, healing, energizing power of the
Infinite One is now flowing through this doctor making him
whole and perfect. The river of peace and love saturate his
. whole being, and the miraculous power of I nfinite Life
_.,,
animates and sustains him so that at this moment every atom
of his being dances to the rhythm of the Eternal God­
Presence within him."
We meditated on these truths for four or five minutes,
realizing that the Healing Power was being resurrected within
him, and the phone call was the response to our realization of
the Infinite Healing Presence. Say in a word, and my servant
shall be healed ( Luke 7 : 7). This Biblical phrase does not
mean you send any healing wave or thought-wave to any­
body, but rather that you have a deep, inner feeling, an
awareness or conviction that the Healing Love of God is now
resurrected in the subconscious of the other person. I f you
have the realization, the healing will follow. This implies, of
course, the receptivity and open-mindedness of the person
you are praying for. This is letting psychic perception work
for y ou. Psyche means the soul, mind, or spirit; perception
means awareness of the truth about a person or a situation. It
means to inwardly perceive the truth about any problem,
whether it pertains to mathematics, navigation, or whatever.
A Dream That Came True
I had a most interesting conversation with a taxi driver,
How to Become A ware of the Psychic Power of Your Mind
whose
father is
Chinese
and
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whose mother is a native
Hawaiian. He told me that about five years ago he found that
he was saying to himself frequently, "I need more wealth ; I
need a home for my family. " One night he had a vivid dream
in which a Chinese sage appeared to him, showed him a
certain area of land near the Kona Coast, and instructed him
to buy it. He did so, and today it has a dvanced 15 times in
value.
The dream has made him independently wealthy. He was
alert and on the qui vive through following the lead which
came to him from his subliminal depths. He knew nothing
about the workings of his subconscious mind, but the law
worked for him because he was quietly and feelingly saying
to himself, "I need more money, I nee d a new home, and
somehow the answer will come." He was not aware of the
powers of his deeper min d ; nevertheless, it responded in the
form of a dream, which he had the mental ability to interpret
accurately, and he acted accordingly. 'The Bible says,/, the
Lord, (law of your subconscious mind) will make myself
known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a
dream (Numbers 1 2: 6).
An Extraordinary Answer to Her
Question About an Operation
A young secretary approached me, saying that she had
been praying for guidance as to whether she should have her
foot operated on or not. She had had a recurrent dream for
five consecutive nights, in which each time a man appeared
and said, " See the man with the I Ching. *" She came over to
the table where I was writing and said, "I notice you are
reading the book I Ching. I have never heard of it, but my
dream must be significant."
•The I Ching, or Book of Changes,
Wilhelm/Baynes Edition, Bollingen Series XIX
(New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1 950).
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I explained briefly the principle of mathematics behind the
I Ching, and her question was: "Will I get a healing of my
foot
through
osteopathic
manipulations
and
ultrasonic
therapy?" The answer was; "Deliverance" -a very positive
yes. She was more than delighted, and exclaimed to me,
"This is a most wonderful answer, and I feel in my heart it is
true. I visited an osteopathic doctor yesterday, and he said I
could be healed."
She was seeking an answer, and her subconscious drama­
tized the answer in a dream recommending the I Ching.
Why? No one knows. Isaiah says, As the heavens are higher
than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways (Isaiah
55: 9).
The Psychic Perception Banishes Loneliness
About three years ago on a visit to this island of Hawaii, a
waitress spoke to me of her loneliness and inability to meet
the right man. I outlined to her a very old but simple
technique of impressing her subconscious mind. Following
my instructions, she began to imagine the tangible reality of
a marriage ring on her finger every night before going to
sleep. She did this over and over again, lulling herself to sleep
feeling the wonder· of it all as an accomplished fact. Feeling
the ring on her finger implied to her that she was already
married to the ideal man who harmonized with her in every
way.
This
young lady
introduced
me
to her husband this
afternoon by the swimming pool at the Kona Inn. They are
ideally married. She pointed out to me that she had conveyed
the simple technique outlined above to her two sisters, who
also attracted wonderful husbands. Repeating a simple act
such as she did over and over again conveys the idea to the
subconscious
mind* and the wisdom of the subconscious
*Dr. Joseph Murphy,
The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
N.J.: Prentice-Hall, I nc., 1963).
(Englewood Cliffs,
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responds in its own way , bringing the young lady and her
future husband together in Divine order. This is psychic
perception, or to rephrase it, "The Law of Attraction in
Action."
The One-Word Magic Formula
Many people who come to me for advice regarding finan­
cial lack and insecurity make the following statement in
common : "There is nothing wrong with me that $50,000 will
not heal." I give them a very simple formula, which I call my
"one-word formula." It is called wealth. I ask each one, "Do
you believe in wealth?" and invariably each one says, "Oh,
yes, of course. I see wealth everywhere," or words tanta­
mount to the same thing.
I elaborate along these lines : "If you look around you as
you walk down the street, you see temples, churches, banks,
stores equipped with all manner of merchandise, millions of
automobiles, trucks and countless machines and equipment
of all kinds, all of which came out of the mind of man. Every
device and invention such as radio, TV, automobile, type­
writer, sewing machine, homes, and skyscrapers were once
invisible ; but man had an idea or a thought-image in his mind,
and nourishing the idea mentally and emotionally, his sub­
conscious mind compelled him into action. Moreover, he
attracted everything necessary for the realization of his
dreams. There is enough material in the world to clothe every
man like a king and every woman like a queen. Moreover,
nature is lavish, extravagant, bountiful, and wasteful. Look at
the untold treasures in the bowels of the earth, in the sea,
and in the air that have not yet been tapped."
After such preliminary discussion on the subject of wealth,
my listeners begin to perceive that wealth is of the mind-just
an idea or a thought-image-and that when this idea is
energized and vitalized, the subconscious activates the con­
scious mind of the individual, and the law of attraction
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attracts riches to him-spiritual , mental, and material. The
modus operandi is extremely simple: men and women are
instructed to lull themselves to sleep every night with j ust
one word, "wealth," knowing what it means and the purpose
of it.
As they slowly, quietly, and feelingly repeat "wealth" over
and over again prior to sleep, they succeed in conveying the
idea of wealth to their subconscious minds. The latter respond
by revealing oftentimes hidden talents which open up new
doors, by presenting them with new ideas, inventions, or
discoveries, or by guiding them to treasures of the earth as
well as to the spiritual and mental treasures within them­
selves.
The results have been outstanding and exceedingly success­
ful in all those cases where people faithfully followed the
instructions. The few who failed had to be corrected in this
technique, because in the waking state they were in the habit
of denying wealth; in other words, they were denying that
which they were affirming and thus were neutralizing their
good. When they corrected this, results followed. When a
thought came to them such as "I can't meet that note at the
bank," or "I can't afford that new car," they would affirm
immediately, "Wealth is mine now" again and again. After a
while the idea of wealth became a habit-and it should be
observed here that praying is a habit, and that your sub­
conscious is the source of all habit. But wealth is a good habit
and poverty is a very bad habit, and that is all there is to the
difference between wealth and poverty.
Try the One-Word Formula; It Works
A geologist friend of mine was sent some months ago to
Australia to explore the mining situation in the western area.
The section had been mapped out for him, but he was not
told about two top geologists who had previously explored
the area with all the necessary equipment "ftnd who had
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reported back to their headquarters, "No success." My friend
discovered a silver vein and uranium deposits the second day
he was in the outlined area.
Every night prior to going to Australia, he had lulled
himself to sleep with one word, "wealth." His subconscious
revealed to him where wealth was, and when he landed by
plane in Australia, he was guided right to a mine (which will
be developed later on). The same geologist also discovered oil
and other treasures of the earth. He knows that wealth is
within the mind,* and having foun d it there, he is directed to
its location in the soil or wherever it may be. The other
geologists had no inner wealth, and the wealth of the ground
eluded them.
How a Sec retary Used the One-Word Formula
I was pleased to hear a secretary who comes to my
lectures on Sundays at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los
Angeles say, "If someone had told me a year ago that I would
be driving a Lincoln, wearing a mink coat, expensive dia­
monds, and sapphires, and be living in my own home and
married to a wonderful man, I would have laughed out loud."
This young lady took my instruction seriously , saying that it
made sense to her and that she decided to use it. She kept her
own counsel lest her girl friends in the office ridicule her
idea. Three months after her faithful impregnation of her
subconscious mind, wealth and happiness flowed to her in
avalanches of abundance.
How to Develop Psychic Perception
Every night relax your body as follows, by affirming
quietly : "My toes are relaxed, my feet are relaxed, my ankles
are relaxed, the calves of my legs are relaxed, my thighs are
•or. Joseph Murphy, Your Infinite Power to Be Rich (West Nyack, N.Y.: Park�r
Publishing Company, Inc., 1 966).
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relaxed, my abdominal muscles are relaxed, my heart and
lungs are relaxed, my neck is relaxed, my hands and arms are
relaxed, my head is relaxed, my eyes are relaxed, my brain is
relaxed, my whole being is relaxed, and I am at peace." These
affirmations relax your entire body in a wonde rful way.
In this relaxed state, you are enabled to implant the
following ideas in your subconscious mind prior to sleep:
"Infinite Intelligence in my subconscious mind reveals to me
everything I need to know at every moment of time and
point of space. I am Divinely inspired and Divinely guided in
all my ways. Divine guidance is mine now. I always recognize
the lead which comes to my conscious, reasoning mind. I
intuitively perceive the truth about every situation. I hear the
truth, I see the truth, I know the truth. I see clearly the
motivation of others, and if they are ulterior, I transform
them by realizing the presence of God's love, peace, and
harmony where the discord is. Divine harmony is mine now.
Divine success is mine now. Divine right action is mine now.
Divine law and order are mine now. Divine peace fills my
soul now. Divine love saturates my entire being now. I am
illumined by the wisdom of God, and I am clairvoyant and
clairaudient from a spiritual standpoint. The only voice I hear
is the inner voice of God, which speaks in peace, and my
clairvoyance is my capacity to see peace where discord is,
love where hatred is, j oy where sadness is, peace where pain
is, and life where so-called death is."
What thou seest, man, that too become thou must­
God if thou seest God and dust if thou seest dust.
POINTS TO REMEMBER
1. A boy of about 1 2 years of age ran home and told
his mother, "Mom, papa is dead. I saw him and
talked to him." His father's death was later con­
firmed by long distance phone. It should be realized
that every person has these psychic capacities. This
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boy had a clairvoyant vision of his father, who
appeared to him and said, ''Good-bye."
2. You are psychic. How often have you thought of a
person and then heard the phone ring, and, behold,
you knew it was your friend calling; or you may
have sensed that someone close needed you, and
when you called on the person , you discovered
your intuitive sense was accurate.
3. A woman who was slowly dying due to her belief
that someone in Tahiti had put the "fix" on her,
healed herself of this fear by filling her mind with
this great truth: "I am alive with the Life of God . "
4. When you pray for another person , you d o not send
any healing wave or thought-wave to anybody . It is
best to have a deep, inner feeling, an awareness or
conviction that the Healing Love of God is now
resurrected in the subconscious of the other person,
and you will get results.
5. A taxi driver who was praying for prosperity had a
vivid
dream
in which a sage appeared to him,
showed him a certain area of land near the Kona
Coast in Hawaii, and instructed him to buy it. He
did so, and today it has increased 1 5 times in value.
A dream can make you independently wealthy .
6. A secretary praying for guidance had a recurrent
dream in which each time a man appeared and said,
"See the man with the I Ching." She visited me and
asked this question of the I Ching: "Will I get a
healing of my foot through osteopathic manipu­
lation?" The answer was:
"Deliverance," which
proved to be true. Her subconscious dramatized the
answer in a dream recommending the book, Secre ts
of the I Ching.*
•Dr. Joseph Murphy, Secrets of the I Ching (West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker Publishing
Company, Inc., 1970).
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7. Wealth is of the mind-just an idea or a thought­
image-and when you repeat the one-word formula,
"Wealth," over and over again, you vitalize it and
your subconscious mind sets the law of attraction
into operation, attracting to you spiritual, mental,
and material riches.
8. You must never deny what you affirm, as this
would neutralize your good. When a thought
comes to you, such as "I can't afford a new car,"
affirm immediately, "Wealth is mine now," again
and again, and after a while the idea of wealth will
be impressed in your subconscious mind.
9. A geologist lulled himself to sleep every night with
one word, "Wealth." His subconscious revealed to·
him where wealth was, and he was guided to the
right location where he found the treasures of the
earth.
10. A secretary affirmed frequently as follows: "I am
driving a luxurious car, and wearing a mink coat
a nd expensive diamonds and sapphires, and I am
living in my own home and happily married." At
the end of three months, all these things came to
pass due to her faithful impregnation of her sub­
conscious mind.
1 1 . You can develop psychic perception by affirming
quietly: "My toes are relaxed, my feet are relaxed,
my ankles are relaxed, the calves of my legs are
relaxed, my heart and lungs are relaxed, my neck is
relaxed, my hands and arms are relaxed, my brain is
relaxed, my whole being is relaxed, and I am at
peace." These affirmations relax your body and
help develop your psychic power in a wonderful
way.
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The Psychic Powers Within You
Everyone possesses psychic powers, i.e., is aware of
events and experiences tran:;cending the five senses. As I was
writing this chapter, I received a letter from a sister of mine
who belongs to a teaching order of nuns in England. In the
letter she stated she saw clearly a group of people in my
home silent and praying on Christmas Eve. She looked at the
clock (in her dream), and it said 1 2 :00 o'clock, and over the
clock was the sign "Beverly Hills."
For the past 2 1 years I have had a group of friends who
celebrate the age-old Mystic Christmas with me, and exactly
at midnight we enter into a prolonged silence, meditating on
certain ·age-old truths. My sister was asleep in England but
witnessed the whole drama and heard my instructions to the
group prior to the silence. There is only one mind, so prior to
sleep, as she was thinking of me and the time difference, she
simply tuned in at our midnight meeting and saw and heard
the religious drama.
These powers are in all people, but oftentimes they are
neglected, scorned, and ridiculed. Remember a simple truth:
you automatically develop your psychic powers as you grow
spiritually through prayer, study, meditation, and mystic
visioning.
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Developing Your Psychic Powers
Be careful to see to it that whatever psychic powers you
have are used to bless, help, heal, and inspire mankind. Never
use these powers to take advantage of any person or to
interfere in any way with a person's right to life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness. To misuse the powers of your mind
would cause a disastrous reaction in yourself for the simple
reason that you are the only thinker in your universe, and
your thought, being creative, will bring into your own life
what you affirm or believe about the other person.
How to Reverse the Negative Pattern
I had interviewed a young woman who was emotionally
disturbed over a pending divorce. During the
period which
followed
the
close
meditative
of the consultation, I
entered into a very passive, psychic, and receptive state of
mind, wherein suddenly a scene opened up before me and I
saw this young lady and a companion traveling in an auto­
mobile. The car was hit by a truck at a crossroad, the car was
demolished, and she and her companion were killed. I reversed
the picture in my mind, realizing the Presence of God in her,
through her, and all around her, knowing and feeling that she
was Divinely guided and watched over by Divine Love at all
times.
I asked her, "Are you planning to go home by car for
Christmas?" She said, "Something tells me, 'No,' but my girl
friend insists I go with her. She will drop me off at my home
and will continue to her home a few miles further." I
suggested to her that under no circumstances should she go
on the j ourney by car and that she should follow the inner
guidance which always seeks to protect her. As a result she
cancelled the trip with her girl friend and flew home.. Her girl
friend went alone and was hit by a truck at a crossroad and
fatally inj ured.
When a psychic picture of a negative nature appears,
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reverse it by rising high enough in consciousness. Also, where
possible, warn the person, pointing out that guidance comes
to all through listening.
Psychical Research
Professor J. B. Rhine of Duke University, the Society
for Psychical Research of Great Britain, and many academic
laboratories throughout the world have collected a vast body
of verified data on thousands of cases dealing with such
powers as clairvoyance, whereby one perceives things and
situations at a distance ; precognition, which is the ability to
see future events as happening now in one's mind ; telepathy,
whereby one communicates mentally with others, collapsing
time and space ; and retrocognition, which is the ability of
many people to see events in the past. All these psychic
powers are latent within all of us.
She Read the Obituary Notice Before It Happened
During a recent trip to Kana on the west coast of the
big island of Hawaii, I talked with a waitress who told me
that from time to time she would inform her family that she
had read in the local paper of the deaths of certain very
elderly relatives. Each time a complete search of the papers
mentioned by her failed to reveal any such notice. Usually a
week to ten days later the notices she referred to would
appear in the newspapers. This is called precognition.
In her early youth, her Hawaiian mother had told the
child that she would be able to see future events just as she
had always been able to do, and undoubtedly this made an
indelible
impression
on
her
subconscious
mind,
which
responded accordingly. Being in telepathic rapport with her
relatives, she picked up like a receiving station the impending
transition of her relatives, which was known by the subcon­
scious mind of each.
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Extrasensory Perception Saved His Father's Life
One day about six months ago , a radio listener of mine
wrote me, saying that he was driving his car along the
highway to San Francisco when suddenly he heard his
father's voice in his ear, saying, "Son, pray for me. I have had
a massive heart attack." He pulled over as far as he could to
the side of the road, stopped the car, and prayed for his
father, affirming, "The peace of God rules in my father's
heart. God is healing him now and God watches over him."
He said that he silently prayed like this for about half an
hour and suddenly felt a great sense of peace.
In the next town, he phoned his father's home, and his
mother told him that his father had been taken to the
hospital due to a bad heart attack while driving his car to
work. Fortunately , he had been able to stop his car, although
in the middle of the road, and the man behind him on the
road happened to be a medical doctor, who got out of his
car, gave him an emergency injection, and took him to a
hospital nearby. She said that he had passed the crisis and
that he had said to her, "I sent word to my son, and I know
his prayers saved my life."
This is clairaudience, whereby you hear clearly the inner
voice of intuition or the voice of a loved one perhaps
thousands of miles away, as time and space are obliterated in
using the higher faculties of your mind. The father had had
an intense desire to communicate with his son, who is deeply
spiritual, and his subconscious delivered the message in the
form of his father's voice to the ear of his son, who was
about 600 miles away at the time. The time of the attack and
the time the son heard the voice were identical. The quick
action of the son undoubtedly saved his father's life.
These powers are within you and can range all over the
world without obstruction of time and space.
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You Can Send Telepathic Messages to a Lecturer
When I am lecturing on a particular subject on Sunday
mornings, there are men and women present who are seeking
answers to specific questions or problems. Frequently, they
send a message to me on the platform and I find myself
deviating from my regular theme in order to answer them,
but I always come back to the main topic. After the morning
talk, many of them utter words similar to: "I was hoping you
would answer the question that was uppermost in my mind
and you did." What they do is to project this thought to me
on the platform, and I respond. This is called telepathy.
She Said, "I Am Leaving this World"
Recently a woman 9 2 years of age phoned me and asked
me to visit her at a retirement home. On my arrival, she
informed me that she was going on to the next dimension in
a week's time, and she gave me the time and the day, all of
which happened as she predicted. She knew intuitively the
moment of her transition, and she informed me that she had
been visited by loved ones in the next dimension who advised
her they were waiting for her. The next dimension of life
interpenetrates this plane, and our loved ones are continu­
ously all around us separated by frequency only. This woman
was, as she said, surrounded by a cloud of witnesses and
looked upon her transition as going through another door
into our Father's home of many mansions. Her parting words
to me were, "I go gladly . My three boys will be waiting for
me up yonder."
American Society of Mathematics
This distinguished scientific body, after exhaustive
checking of the thousands of experiments by Dr. Rhine of
Duke University on telepathy, clairvoyance, and pre­
cognition, pronounced his findings valid. These extraordinary
faculties of the mind today are referred to as parapsychology.
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She Heard a Voice Out of the Blue and Found the Will
A widow visited me last year, saying that her husband,
shortly prior to his demise, had told her he had made out a
new will leaving all of his estate to her. His lawyer knew
nothing about a new will ; the will he had was ten years old . I
suggested to her that she claim, "Infinite Intelligence knows
where the will is and reveals it to me. " She had searched
everywhere in the house, but to no avail. Three or four days
after she started praying, however, she distinctly heard her
husband's voice in the kitchen where she was doing some
ironing: " Look up the 45th Chapter of Isaiah ." She did, and
there she found the new will, attested to by two witnesses, all
in legal phraseology, dated, and signed.
Intuitively she knew that her husband was still alive and
much interested in her welfare. She feels his presence quite
frequently in the house. Her subconscious mind responded to
her prayer and spoke in the voice of her husband, which she
instantly obeyed. In the next dimension, conversation is by
thought only, but the subconscious mind caused the thought
or desire of her husband to come forth as his voice. She
experienced the j oy of the answered prayer; whether it was
her own subconscious mind dramatizing the voice of her
husband or the husband's thought made audible by the
subconscious doesn't really make any difference, as there is
only one mind common to all men and we are all immersed
in that one mind.
Talking to the So-Called Dead Is a Common Experience
I visited a local hospital recently to see a man who was,
as he said, about to make his transition. The doctors gave him
only a few hours to live. We prayed together, and he called
·
out, "Jimmy, Mary, and Jean are here . " He conversed with
them. These were his three children, all of whom had gone to
the next dimension. Then he said to me, "Thaddeus is here. I
didn't know he had passed over."
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His
wife
was present and said to me that he was
probably raving. He was not raving; he was very rational and
conducted a vigorous conversation with me. A wee1c later she
learned her son, Thaddeus, had died in Australia. This man
actually saw all th.e members of his family who had passed
on.
His loved
ones were
around
him,
comforting him,
undeluded by the concepts of time and space, functioning in
fourth-dimensional bodies.
When the scales of superstition and theological brain­
washing of thousands of years fall from our eyes, we will see
and hear our loved ones, who are all around us, like radio
waves carrying television symphonies and voices which per­
meate our homes inside and outside, but we turn on a dial to
prove that the music, people, and voices are really in our
room.
An Army Officer Hears His Brother's
Voice : "You Will Be Saved"
A few months ago, I spoke at a club dinner, and an
army officer sat next to me. He had just returned from
Vietnam. He said that he and his brother had been wounded
on patrol but that his brother died from the wounds before
help could arrive. Then a very strange thing happened. His
brother appeared to him and said, "The medics are not far
away ; I will tell them where you are and you will be saved."
In about a half an hour, t wo medics arrived and administered
aid to him. They said, "An o fficer appeared from nowhere
and gave us specific directions." They described the officer
and it tallied in every detail with that of his departed brother.
After a few hours the helicopter took him to an army
hospital, where he recovered rapidly from his wounds.
There is really nothing strange about this when you stop
and think things through. You are a mental and spiritual
being. When you leave the body , you immediately put on
another fourth-dimensional body . You can see and b e seen,
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understand and be understood, and have a perfect memory.
In other words, your personality never dies. This brother had.
an intense desire to save his brother's life. His subconscious
mind knew the location of the medics and immediately
projected him there, enabling him to be seen by the medics.
Also, his subconscious empowered him to speak and issue
orders.
Today
it is well known in scientific and academic
laboratories that you can think, feel, see, hear, and travel,
independent of your physical body. In other words, all the
faculties of your senses can be duplicated in mind alone.
Infinite I ntelligence makes no mistakes, and it was, therefore,
intended that you use all these faculties transcendentally of
your physical body
and environment. The subtle body,
sometimes referred to as the fourth-dimensional body , can
appear and disappear at will, enter closed doors, give mes­
sages, move ponderable obj ects. Remember, you will have
bodies to infinity. These bodies are rarefied and attenuated,
vibrating at a higher molecular frequency.
There is that in you that was never born; will never die.
Water wets it not; fire burns it not ; wind blows it not away.
It is your Spiritual Self. You go from mansion to mansion,
for there is no end to the glory which is man.
POINTS TO REMEMBER
1 . Everyone
possesses
psychic
powers and abilities
which transcend the knowledge made available by
the five senses. There are times when the phone rings
and you know who is calling. This is called telepathy.
You are picking up the thought of the person who is
calling you.
2. In developing your psychic powers, you must be very
careful that you use your psychic ability to bless,
heal, and inspire others. You must never use your
psychic knowledge or power to impose your will on
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or take advantage o f any other person. You do so at
your own peril.
3. When you see a negative pattern for a loved one, a
friend, or a client, you can reverse the condition by
realizing the Presence of God in the mind and heart
of the other.
This
means to enter into a vivid
realization of the presence of Divine love, harmony,
and Divine law and order where the person is. Know
that the Guidance of God prevails ; then you will
reverse the negative pattern of the other's subcon·
scious.
4. If while listening to a lecture on mental and spiritual
laws, you should desire some specific information
regarding
your
personal
problem,
proj ect
your
thought to the speaker, and you will find that he will
usually respond.
5. Many people know exactly the time of their transi·
tion. They are in rapport with their subconscious
mind, which knows all and sees all.
6. The American
distinguished
nounced
the
Society
of
Mathematics,
scientific body
conclusions
a
most
of men, have pro·
noted
by
Dr.
Rhine's
' experiments on extrasensory perception as valid.
7. It is possible to hear the voices of loved ones who
have passed on to the next dimension. Their desire to
¢ve
you certain information which you are seeking,
such as the location of a lost will, causes their
thoughts or desires to be heard clearly. Follow these
directions and you will get the desired answer. These
are the wonders of your deeper mind.
8. Many people about to pass on to the next dimension
will conduct lively and affectionate conversations
with loved ones who have long since passed on. The
person about t o pass on is in both dimensions a t the
same time and sees and hears his loved ones who are
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all around him and who are comforting him. Actu­
ally, they are there to bless him and aid him in his
transition to the fourth dimension of life, which
interpenetrates this plane.
9. It is possible for a loved one who has passed on and
who has an intense desire to help you, to appear to
those who can aid you and give them the appropriate
message.
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How to Use Extrasensory Perception
in Everyday Life
You
have
frequently
heard
the
term psychic phe­
no mena. This was the former designation for what in modern
terminology is expressed as extrasensory perception. As far
back as I can remember, I have heard relatives, friends,
acquaintances, and members of my audience tell me about
premonitions of events which they felt were going to happen,
and happen they did. Countless numbers have told me of
dreams and visions which subsequently came to pass exactly
as they had seen them · happening in their dreams. Many
others similarly have told me of seeing apparitions of loved
ones who had just passed on at the same moment their forms
became visible, and they spoke of the loved ones giving them
messages. Many others have heard an inner voice telling them
not to take a particular journey or not to marry a certain
person.
Many university students who come to see me for
consultations regarding emotional or school problems tell me
that on numerous occasions they see all the questions in a
dream prior to the examination, and they get up immediately
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and study the answers from their textbooks. All o f the
foregoing are based on extrasensory perception as they
transcend the five senses.
At the Moment of Transition She Appeared to Me
Some years ago while I was talking on the phone to an
old ·friend, my sister walked in through the door. I was
surprised and said to her, "Why didn't you tell me you were
coming? Did you come by air?" She had been teaching in St.
Mary's Convent at Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, and had
been a nun for over sixty years. She told me that she had .
passed on a few moments previously and had come to say
goodbye. We conversed for about five minutes. She sat on a
chair, was tangible and real, had a body , and were her habit
and rosary beads. Suddenly, however, she melted away and
disappeared.
I
learned later,
difference,
taking into
that she had
consideration the time
made her transition that same
moment in St. Mary's Convent, Lowestoft, England. We had
made a secret agreement that whichever one of us passed to
the fourth dimension first would make himself or herself
known to the other by appearing and giving a message.
This was not a thought form of my sister, but rather her
total personality, as she conducted a vigorous conversation
with me, answering questions and describing her physical
condition
prior to transition, together with the medical
diagnosis.
Her desire to visit me caused her subconscious
mind to project her personality into a new subtle body,
which was capable of collapsing time and space, passing
through closed doors, moving ponderable objects, and con­
ducting a rational and reasonable conversation. She had a
body which was real, solid, and tangible, but it was vibrating
at a higher molecular frequency and could disappear and
reappear at will.
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Extrasensory Travel
I am writing this chapter on New Year's Day. Last night
I invited about 30 friends to my home to celebrate the New
Year by participating in scientific prayer followed by a
prolonged silence. One of the young ladies present said to m�
after the silent period, " Dr. Murphy , I saw a man behind
your back all the time you were giving your audible prayer.
He wasn't present in the group when I came in. Who is he? I
don't see him now."
She described him in detail, and I explained to her that
this was an old friend of mine from Ecuador who used to
attend every New Year's mystic celebration with us, but that
for the last five years he had been stationed in Spain. I
advised her that he had written me, saying that he would be
with us on New Year's Eve and would join in our prayers. He
had stated that not only would he see us but also that he
would be seen. This is not at all unusual. He computed the
time, 1 2 : 00 P.M. midnight here, when we would go into the
silence, and in
a
meditative state in Madrid, Spain, he
instructed his subconscious to project him to my home,
where he participated in our prayer therapy .
Just now, as I write this, I have had a long distance call
from Madrid, and my friend asked me, "Did you see me last
night behind you?" I said, "No, my eyes were closed all the
time that we prayed and meditated." But I added that one of
our hostesses had seen him clearly and had described him in
detail, such as how he was dressed, etc. Her description
corresponded in every detail with what he said. He told me
the nature of the prayer; said how many were present ; stated
that he knew only ten of those present, mentioning their
names ; and said that the others were strangers to him. This is
true, because only the ten he mentioned had attende d our
New Year's conclave when he was stationed in Los Angeles.
He is experimenting in extrasensory travel, and he told
me that gradually he is becoming aware of tactile, auditory,
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and visual capacities in his out-of-the-body experiences. Man
is a mental and spiritual being and is omnipresent. When you
think of your mother, for example, even though she may be
in Hong Kong, you are there with her.
Extrasensory Transmission Solves a Legal Pro b lem
An attorney friend of mine has been trying to solve a
prolonged law suit for over five years. He described his
difficulties with the people involved and said they were
intransigent, recalcitrant, and inflexible, and that finally he
had reached what he termed a dead end.
I suggested to him that every night prior to sleep he
should imagine
that I
was there right in front of him
congratulating him on the happy ending of the law suit. He
was to hear me say to him , "Congratulations for the happy
ending. Look at the wonders God has wrought." Every night
thereafter he closed his eyes, placed his head on the pillow,
and for about ten minutes would fix his attention upon me
and hear me vocalize the above congratulatory words. He
made it vivid and real and retained in his mind's eye the
visualized image of myself and the words which I reiterated
over and over again.
At the end of a week , the opposing counsel suddenly
agree d to settle amicably and harmoniously. In the mean­
time, one of the most obstreperous members of the con­
tending party passed on to the next dimension. This attor­
ney,
by
creative
thinking
and
visioning,
succeeded
in
impregnating his subconscious mind with the idea of a Divine.
solution, and his deeper min d brought the solution to pass in
its own way.
Remember, the subconscious mind has ways you know
not o f. Spiritually and mentally I was present, and the
attorney used my voice to bring about a conviction in his
deeper mind. There is no time or space in the mind-principle ;
therefore, whenever you mentally dwell anyplace, you are
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there literally, because you are a mental and spiritual being
using your present three-dimensional body as a vehicle ; but
you have another subtle, fourth-dimensional body that can
roam the world independent of time or space.
Extrasensory Communication Joins Two Lovers
A young college girl came to see me one Sunday
morning prior to my lecture at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in
Los Angeles, where I speak every Sunday morning. In tears,
she said something along the following lines: that she and her
boy friend had had a serious quarrel, that he was now
somewhere in Vietnam, that she would like to make amends
and tell him how wrong she was, and that she would like to
hear from him.
I explained to her that she must never impose her will
upon another or try to interfere with his life pattern in any
way, but that she should first forgive herself and then pray as
follows: "Tom is known in Divine Mind, which knows all
things.
God's
love
fills the
mind and heart of Tom. I
surrender him to God, wishing for him all the blessings of
life.
There
are
harmony , peace, Divine love and under­
standing between us. God be with him. "
I pointed out t o her that when she used this prayer she
was blessing the young man and that since Infinite Intelli­
gence is all wise, whatever happened would be good , and that
as
a result of her prayer they may be drawn closer together or
find their highest happiness apart. She understood that she
had no right to try to hypnotize or mesmerize her fiance or
to mentally coerce him to do her bidding, but that she should
tum the matter over to the supreme intelligence in her which
knows all and sees all, and that this was the ideal way to
handle all such problems.
After the young lady had followed the above prayer
process
for a
few
days Tom phoned her from Saigon,
mentioning nothing about their quarrel. He told her that she
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had appeared to him at his tent a few nights previously,
smiling, and said to him, "Tom, I love you." Then she had
vanished.
The explanation to all this is really very simple. Spirit is
omnipresent, timeless, and spaceless. In her prayer therapy,
the young girl called upon the love and harmony of God to
be resurrected within Tom. When she prayed for him, she was
mentally
and
spiritually
present. He, undoubtedly being
sensitive and psychic, saw her because she was functioning in
a rarefied and
attenuated
body
and was actually · there
mentally and spiritually and oscillating at a higher degree
physically.
Extrasensory Protection Against Voodoo
Recently I received a letter from a waiter in Honolulu,
whom I had met on a recent trip there . He said that someone
was practicing black magic against him, that he was cursed,
and that everything was going wrong in his life. He men­
tioned the name of the man who he believed was using
voodooism or sorcery against him.
I wrote him a lengthy explanation, highlighting and
pointing out that all the water in the ocean could not sink a
ship unless it got inside ; likewise, negative thoughts of others
could not enter into his mind unless he opened the door of
his mind and gave them entrance; and that God and man are
one.
This is indisputable, uncontrovertible, and an eternal
truth. God is all there is, and God is absolute truth, boundless
love, infinite life, absolute harmony, and infinite joy. I told
him that when his thought is God's thought, God's power is
with his thoughts of good ; that his thought is creative ; and
that when he thinks of God's love, peace, harmony, and joy,
he is automatically protected and immune to all the toxic
effluvia of the mass mind. Actually, when he thinks of the
eternal verities, it is God thinking through him, and whatever
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God thinks can only result in Divine law and order and
perfect harmony.
Accordingly, I gave him the following age-old , sr �tual
prescription, the source of which is lost in antiquit)
"Sit
down quietly two or three times a day and imagine that you
are surrounded by a sacred circle of light. As you continue to
do this, after a few days you will actually see a golden circle
of healing light all around you. This is an emanation of the
God-Presence within you, rendering you impervious to all
harm. You are now invulnerable and completely insulated
from the fear thoughts or negative sugge::tions of o thers.
Make a habit of this, and whenever you th:nk of the voodoo
man, simply affirm, 'God's Love fills my soul. I loose him
and let him go.' "
The sequel to this was most interesting. The waiter
continued in the above prayer process, and at the end of a
week he read in the paper that this voodoo man had dropped
dead on the
street,
presumably of a heart attack. The
explanation to this episode is again very simple. The negative
thoughts and imprecations hurled against him by the voodoo
practitioner had no place to go, as he no longer received
them. On the contrary, he poured out benedictions and
orisons on his ill-wisher, and the proverbial boomerang took
place. These negative emotions engendered by the voodoo
practitioner recoiled with double force back on him, and he
actually killed himself.
Remember, you are the only thinker in your universe,
and since your thought is creative , what you are thinking
about the other you are creating within yourself. When you
send out murderous or evil thoughts to another who has
insulated himself by God-like thoughts and cannot receive
the negative vibrations, they return to you with double force.
This is usually referred to as the boomerang. Furthermore, to
think or wish evil for another is to kill love, harmony, peace,
beauty, and joy within yourself. These thoughts generate
emotions, and emotions kill or cure. Evil thoughts plus the
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emotions
generated
by
them
a·ccumulate
in
your sub­
conscious mind, bringing about self-destruction, which can
cause a fatal disease ; or someone else may be the instrument
through which you meet your death, for all murder is really
self-murder.
Men, women, and children in this world are simply
testifying to our states of consciousness-they are instru­
ments fulfilling our inner attitudes, convictions, and beliefs.
According to your belief is it done unto you.
POINTS TO REMEMBER
1. "Psychic phenomena" is an earlier term for extra­
sensory perception. Oftentimes you have had an
inner feeling and an awareness that the phone call
was from a certain person. You have had premoni­
tions,
precognitive
dreami,
intuitive urges which
proved to be correct. All of these come under the
classification
of
extrasensory
phenomena,
which
means they transcend the five senses.
2. It is possible for a person who has passed on to the
next dimension to appear to a loved one if the
individual
so
desires.
The
appearance
is usually
referred to as an apparition.
3. It is perfectly possible for a person who sincerely
wishes to travel to meet a friend thousands of miles
away
to suggest
feelingly
and knowingly to his
subconscious prior to sleep, "I want to visit John
Jones. My deeper mind takes over and brings this to
pass in Divine order... When you are sincere and
come to a definite decision in your mind, your
subconscious will project your personality with a
fourth-dimensional body to the desirP:d location.
4. There is no time or space in tht- mind-principle;
consequently, you can imagine a loved one or a
friend in front of you telling you the good news, that
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which y o u want to hear. Hear it vividly a n d feelingly ,
a n d what y o u subjectively feel a n d believe will come
to pass.
5. Never try mentally to coerce another to do what you
want him to do. If you have a quarrel with a person
and you wish him to call you, realize that God guides
and directs the other individual and that there are
harmony, love, peace, and understanding between
you. Whatever happens following this prayer can
only be good .
6. You can protect
yourself
against
any
negative
onslaughts from without by realizing and affirming:
"God and man are one , and if God be for me, no one
can be against me." God is for you when your
thoughts are constructive and harmonious. God's
power is with your thoughts of good. You can
surround yourself with the whole armor o f God and
be immunized against all harm. Affirm boldly : "I am
always surrounded by the sacred circle o f God's
eternal love." Busy your mind with this great truth
and you will lead a charmed life.
4
How You Can Release
the Psychic Powers Within You
During one Christmas week, I received a wonderful
letter from a woman in Northern California, who told me
that three months previously her son had vanished from
home and no trace of him could be found. The authorities
were informed, but he was simply one of thousands of
teenagers who have run away to places unknown ; results were
not forthcoming.
Consequently, she wrote out the mental technique she
used, which was as follows: "I went into my boy's room, sat
still for about ten minutes and said to myself, ' Infinite
Intelligence knows where
my
boy is, and this supreme
intelligence within me knows why he left and reveals the
answer to me. It guides me and tells me what to do.' An idea
popped into my mind to visit his girl friend, which I did, and
she told me they had had a quarrel and she had given him
back a ring which he had given her. Then she said he often
spoke of going to his cousin's home in Canada. I phoned
there at once, and my boy answered the phone. After a short
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talk he was delighted to come home. There is an intelligence
within us all if we would only stir it up."
This woman understood the extent of the powers of her
subconscious mind and was aware that when her conscious
mind became quiet and relaxed, the wisdom of her subcon­
scious would rise to the surface, revealing to her the answer
to her problem. There is an answer to every question and a
solution to every problem. Remember, your subconscious
knows only the answer. Ask and you shall receive.
Extrasensory Drama Re-enacted
and Witnessed by a Doctor
A doctor friend of mine attending a chiropractic con­
vention in Canada was given a beautiful hotel room with an
excellent view. Since she was exhausted after a long flight,
she dropped
off to sleep almost instantly. Suddenly at
about 2 : 00 A.M . , she became wide awake with the awful
feeling that there was a man in her room, although she knew
she had locked the door from the inside. Standing in front of
her was a tall man, well-dressed, with a revolver in his hand.
He shot himself and fell dead on the floor.
She was petrified with fear an d in a state of shock but
had presence of mind enough to phone the night clerk, who
came rushing up. The doctor hysterically described exactly
what had happened. The night clerk then informed her that a
man had committed suicide in that room a week previously ,
and after offering that information, he immediately trans­
ferred her to another .room.
She asked me how to explain it. I told her that Judge
Troward, who had written many textbooks on mental science
and who had been a j udge in the Punj ab of India for many
years, once told of a similar incident which his wife had
experienced in their new quarters in India. She was awakened
by a shot and saw a man who had apparently shot himself
dropping before her. She also heard his voice clearly. Though
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she was emotionally shocked at vie wing this grisly event, her
husband, Judge Troward, explained it along these lines: that
the suicide left an impression, a sort of photographic pattern
in the psychic atmosphere, which continuously exists all
around us, and a sensitive person could see it reproduced.
Mrs. Troward's subjective faculties were activated by the
vibrations of the room where it had occurred.
I explained to my doctor friend that it was a thought­
form , highly charged with emotion, attached to a particular
part of the room where the tragedy had taken place, and that
it would be gradually dissipated and fade into nothing. Since
this experience, this doctor of chiropractic medicine requests
the wisdom of her subconscious mind to guide her to hotel
rooms which are harfuonious, peaceful, and delightful in all
ways, and her subconscious responds faithfully. The emo­
tional atmosphere around the shocking experience at the
hotel was completely neutralized, and the explanation of the
drama was the cure.
Listen to the Perceptive Flashes of Intuition
from Your Subconscious Mind
A banker told
me recently that
all his important
decisions and directions regarding the welfare of the bank
and its employees are based on perceptive flashes which come
from his subconscious mind to his conscious mind. His
technique is praying without ceasing, which means to him
that all his thinking is based on principles of life's eternal
verities, which never change. He lives in the j oyous expec­
tancy of the best, his thinking is constructive, and he has love
and good will for all.
"Without ceasing" means an attitude of mind, a deep
conviction that God is always guiding and directing him, and
this belief on his part causes his subconscious to give him the
intuitive flashes of which he speaks. He keeps his mind clear
of all negativisms, fear, and discord. Then when he is faced
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with a problem or a difficult decision, the wisdom o f his
deeper mind gives him the answer, which transcends his five
senses and is always right.
You Are Far More Wonderful than You Ever Imagined
Within your subconscious depths* lie infinite wisdom,
infinite power, and an infinite supply of all that is necessary,
which is waiting for development and expression. Begin now
to recognize these potentialities of your deeper mind, and
they
will take form in the world without. The infinite
intelligence within your subconscious mind can reveal to you
everything you need to know at every moment of time and
point of space, provided you are open-minded and receptive.
You can receive new thoughts and ideas enabling you to
bring forth new inventions, make new discoveries, or write
books and plays. The infinite intelligence of your subcon­
scious which has the power to heal · your body, has a perfect
memory of everything you have ever experienced, and can
impart to you a vast range of knowledge of an original
nature.
Through the intuitive powers of your subconscious, you
can attract the ideal mate and the right partner or employee
for your business. The wisdom of your subconscious can find
the right buyer for your land, your home, or whatever else
you may have for sale. It can provide you with ideas worth a
fortune, giving you the financial freedom to be, to do, and to
travel as your heart desires. Within your subconscious you
will find the answer to your most perplexing problems and
the
cause
for every
effect. There is an infinite healing
presence in your subconscious that can heal the troubled
mind and the broken heart. The gold mine and the treasure
house of infinity are within you. It can free you from fear
*See The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, Dr. Joseph Murphy, Prentice-Hall,
Inc., Englewood Oiffs, New Jersey, 1 963.
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and from all kinds of material and physical thralldom and
misery.
She Discovered the Healing Presence Within Her
One of many letters I received during the recent Christ­
mas period was from Zurich, Switzerland. The writer was a
young lady who had been reading my book The Po wer of
Yo ur Subconscious Mind, which is published in German by
Ramon R. Keller Publishers, Geneva, Switzerland. In her
letter she said that a surgeon had given her about four
months to live, but added that with God's help, she could
overcome the cancerous condition. Her surgeon suggested
that she read the healing miracles of the Bible and continue
to practice the techniques given in The Po wer of Your
Subconscious Mind. *
She said that for about fifteen minutes three times a day
she boldly affirmed with deep feeling and conviction that the
infinite intelligence of her subconscious mind, which made all
her organs and her entire body, could and would heal her,
and she faithfully and regularly pictured in her mind's eye
her surgeon saying to her, "A miracle has happened. All
clinical tests are negative. " Six months passed, and when she
went back for a checkup, that is exactly what he said to her.
Another six months went by and she received the same
assurance. Two years have passed and she says that she is
completely cured and back at work. Her surgeon was not
surprised at the so-called "miracle" case, for he knows the
great truth that all healing is of the Most High.
I have condensed her letter, but the essence of it, which
I have given here, shows that any person with a deep, abiding
faith and confidence in the infinite healing presence can get
results.
*Dr. Joseph MUl'phy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (Englewood Cliffs,
NJ.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1 963).
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Recognizing the Intuitive Feeling
of Your Subconscious Mind
When your motivation is right and based on love and
goodwill to all men, and when your mind is free from
self-condemnation and self-criticism and you have no desire
whatever to take advantage of any person in any way, you
will gradually be able to recognize that intuitive feeling which
gives you the right answer to your question. The answer may
come in many ways, but one of the most frequent is that
inner hunch that tells you either to go ahead or to hold back.
Your conscious, reasoning mind may try to get in the way,
but after you have reasoned the matter out pro and con and
then turned the matter over to your deeper mind, full of
wisdom and intelligence, you must be alert for the intuitive
flash which often wells up spontaneously from your deeper
mind. Remember, the impulses, urges, and monitions of your
subconscious are always lifeward, as your subconscious mind
seeks to heal, protect, and save you from financial loss,
accidents, and foolish expenditures of energy and talents.
Self-preservation is the first law of life , and this is the law of
your subjective mind.
His Inner Voice Saved His Life
Recently a man living in the suburban area of Los
Angeles told · me that he had been invited by his employer to
fly in his private plane for some hunting in the northern part
of California. He was on the verge of accepting his offer for
the week-end when his inner voice clearly said to him, "Say
no," and he obeyed it. Subsequently the plane crashed in a
fog and the two occupants were killed.
This man constantly affirms, "God guides me in all my
ways." Undoubtedly, he has conveyed this idea of inner
guidance to his subconscious, which responds according to
the nature of the impression made upon it.
This man's
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premonition was so strong and unmistakable that he said
later, "I couldn't fight it."
You Can Develop Your Intuition
You breathe air without effort ; likewise, you should
learn to let the intelligence within your subconscious mind
flow through your intellect without tension. Your subj ective
mind perceives by intuition. It does not have to reason or
inquire, as it is an all-wise and an infinite intelligence. If you
say
to your subconscious, sometimes referred to as the
subj ective mind (it is subject to the conscious mind), "Wake
me up at 6 : 00 o'clock," you know that you will awaken
exactly at the time specified. It never fails. We must realize
that herein lies a source of power which is omnipotent. Many
good people have erroneous ideas about the gift of intuition.
Many believe that it is an extraordinary event, to be experi­
enced only by highly spiritual people. This is not true. Any
businessman or housewife can receive an answer by turning
to the infinite intelligence of the subconscious mind, and
guidance may be received for any problem.
How to Get a New Idea for Your
Program or Your Business
Sales
If you are a professional man or an executive of a
commercial organization and you want a new idea for your
program, try the following technique: Close your eyes, be
still, and think of the infinite power and wisdom within you.
This will generate a mood of peace, power, and confidence.
Then speak in the following simple manner to the creative
intelligence within you, which knows
only the answer:
"Creative Intelligence within me knows all things and it gives
me the new idea necessary for this program." Imagi ne that
the creative idea is welling up from your subliminal depths
and that it is flowing through your conscious mind. You
must not pretend; really believe it. Accept it and then drop
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it. The latter is the most important and is the secret of the
whole process.
After the quiet period, get busy ; do something; become
preoccupied with routine matters, Above all, do not sit
around waiting for the answer. It comes when you think not
and the moment when you expect not. The inner voice of
intuition speaks like a flash; it is spontaneous and comes
unannounced.
Intuition, which means taught fro m within, knows the
answer. You must realize that the creative or infinite intelli­
gence which created the cosmos and all things therein
contained has no problem ; if it had, who would solve them?
Therefore, when you seek an answer, be aware that the
supreme intelligence in your subj ective depths knows only
the answer. The amazing suddenness with which the solution
sometimes comes is startling. You are transcending your
objective reasoning only in the sense of deferring it to a
higher guide. After you have received an intuition, you use
your reason in carrying it out.
Two Reasons You May Not Acknowledge Your Hunches
The reasons are tension and failure to recognize your
hunches. If you are in a negative, despondent, hostile mood,
intuition is impossible. As a matter of fact, only negative
direction will prevail. If you are in a happy, confident, j oyous
mood, you will recognize the flashes of intuition that come
to you. Moreover, you will feel under subjective compulsion
to carry them out. It is necessary, therefore, to be still and
relaxed when you seek guidance, for nothing can be accom­
plished by tenseness, fear, or apprehension.
Who has not had the experience of being unable to
remember a name, then, after dropping the search, have the
name come to him later during repose?
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The Cultivation of Your Intuitive Faculty
Is of Paramount Importance
For every man and woman, the cultivation of the
intuitive faculty is of great significance. Intuition offers
instantaneously that which the intellect or reasoning mind
could accomplish only after weeks or months of monumental
trial and error. When our reasoning faculties fail us in our
perplexities, the intuitive faculty sings the silent song of
triumph.
The conscious mind is reasoning, analytical, and inquisi­
tive; the subjective faculty of intuition is spontaneous. It
comes as a beacon to the conscious intellect. Many times it
speaks as a warning against a proposed trip or plan of action.
We must listen an d learn to heed the voice of wisdom. It does
not always speak to you when you wish it to do so, but only
when you need it.
If you will only believe, and not just pretend to believe,
that Infinite Intelligence is guiding you in all your ways-in
your thoughts, words, and deeds-you will be led along the
right road. Artists, poets, writers, and inventors listen t o their
voice of intuition. As a result, they are able to astonish the
world by the beauties and glories drawn from this storehouse
of knowledge within themselves.
The Me aning of Inner Hearing
The word intuition also means inner h earing. The oldest
definition for revelation meant that which is heard. Hearing is
not the only way to nurture intuition. Sometimes it comes as
a thought, but the most common way is to "hear the voice."
Many times it is a voice whose texture, color, and substance
you can hear as plainly as the voice over the radio. The
scientist uses his wonderful gift of controlled, directed, and
disciplined imagination, and in the silence he sees fulfillment.
His intuition relates to his particular science.
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Intuition transcends reason. You employ reason to carry
out the dictates of intuition. When you receive intuition, you
will often find that it is opposite to what your reasoning
would have told you. Begin to practice developing your
intuition and let wonders happen in your life.
POINTS TO REMEMBER
1 . I f you are looking for a person who has dis­
appeared, sit still, quiet your mind, and ask the
infinite intelligence within your subconscious to
reveal to you his whereabouts. The answer will
come to you in ways you know not of. Be alert and
follow the lead which comes into your conscious,
reasoning mind.
2. A person who has committed suicide in a home or
in a hotel room usually leaves a deep, psychic
impression
in
the
atmosphere of the particular
place, and it is possible for a psychic or similarly
highly intuitive person to see the drama repeated as
a mental image. The individual has passed on to the
next dimension, but has left a descriptive thought­
form of his act in the particular location. This
psychic
photographic impression dissipates itself
after some weeks or months, depending on the
intensity of the emotional charge behind it.
3. Praying without ceasing means that you think
constructively all day long from the standpoint of
eternal principles and verities of life. Live in the
j oyous expectancy of the best, knowing Divine law
and order govern your life, and you will be auto­
matically guided to do the right thing. You will
recognize
intuitive flashes welling up spontane­
ously, revealing to you the right answer.
4. Your subconscious mind is the storehouse of mem­
ory, the seat of your emotions and your intuitive
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faculties.
Your subconscious
mind is
one with
infinite intelligence and boundless wisdom. The
in finite healing presence is within your subcon­
scious, and it knows how to heal and restore you to
harmony and peace. It can provide you with the
right idea and can free you from limitations of all
kinds.
5 . The infinite healing presence of your subconscious
mind made your body and knows how to heal it.
Trust it, believe it, and call upon it, and you will get
a response. Don't pretend to believe, bu t know in
your heart that the creative intelligence which made
all your organs knows how to heal and restore.
According to your faith will it be done unto you.
6. When your motivation is right and you have no
desire to take advantage of any person, and when
you are praying for Divine law and order in your
life, you will receive God's guidance which will
cause you to become alert and alive to the intuitive
flashes from your subliminal depths.
7. When you make a habit of affirming and at the
same time profoundly believing that " God (infinite
intelligence) is guiding me in all my ways ," often
you will hear an inner voice telling you exactly
what to do.
8. If you are seeking a new idea for your profession or
business, quiet your mind and affirm : "Creative
intelligence knows all things and reveals to me the
new idea." Then drop it, and the moment you
expect it not, the answer will pop into your mind
like toast out of a toaster.
9. Fear and tension are two reasons why you do not
recognize the answer from your deeper mind. Quiet
your mind and contemplate the wonder of the
powers within you. When your conscious mind is
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quiet and receptive, the answer wells up from the
deeper mind.
1 0. I ntuition offers instantaneously that which the
intellect or reasoning mind could accomplish only
after weeks or months of monumental trial and
error.
1 1 . Sometimes the intuitive answer comes as a thought,
but the most common way is to "hear the voice,"
which you can hear as distinctly as the voice over
the radio. Begin to practice developing your intui­
tion and let wonders happen in your life.
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Extrasensory Travel
and Out-of-the-Body Experiences
Some months ago I gave a series of lectures on extra­
sensory perception at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los
Angeles, and
subsequently I receive d many letters from
members of the audience who had had what they termed
strange experiences but hesitated to mention them lest they
be considered "queer" or "odd" or not all there in mind. I
shall mention in this chapter in capsule form the essence, or
the gist, of these experiences.
Out-of-the-Body Experience
One woman responded that on Christmas Eve, 1 96 8 , she
had felt an intense desire to be with her mother in New York
City. As she fell asleep, focusing all her thoughts on her
former home in New York City, she immediately found
herself in her mother's home trying to open the front door.
She managed to enter the back door, however, and went
upstairs to her mother's room where her mother was lying
awake in bed reading the paper. Her mother was startled and
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asked, " Why didn't you let me know you were coming? I
heard you come up the stairs; I knew it was you." This
woman kissed her mother and said, "Merry Christmas , Mom.
I have to leave now , " and she found herself back in her body
in Los Angeles. She was able to describe everything in the
room, and she had heard the Christmas carols on the radio
clearly.
This is not an unusual experience. She was focused on
her mother prior to sleep and had developed an intense desire
to be with her on Christmas Eve. This desire charged her
subconscious mind with a mission , and it projected her
personality in a new body 3 ,000 miles away. Her mother
experienced the touch of her lips and hands and heard her
voice clearly. She entered through the back door even though
it was locked, and sat on a chair by her mother's bed. She
was conscious of being out of her body and was aware of a
more rarefied body that could pass through locked doors or
other material objects.
Extrasensory Travel to Sydney, Australia
An Australian friend told me of an interesting ex peri­
ence he had had on New Year's Eve. On going to sleep, he
was thinking of his father's health and began to pray for him
by realizing that the Infinite Healing Presence was vi talizing
and energizing his whole being, and he began to imagine his
father saying to him, "Son, I never felt better in my life. I
had a miraculous healing. " He kept hearing this over and over
again, lulling himself to sleep with the imaginary words of his
father, and suddenly he found himself at his father's bedside.
He spoke to his father, who was startled by his presence, and
exclaimed, "Why di dn't you tell me you were coming? What
a surprise ! "
He said to me that h e was consciously aware o f and able
to see clearly everything in his father's room while realizing
that his other body was on a couch in Los Angeles. He
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appeared to his father fully clothed and had auditory, visual,
and tactile capacities outside his body . He was aware that he
had a subtle body capable of going through closed doors and
collapsing time and space. All this took place in a few
minutes, and subsequent letters from his father confirmed his
visit in every detail.
Some people would call this an apparition, a ghost, a
disembodied entity, etc . , but the simple truth is that this man
had projected a new body thousands of miles from his home
and was able to communicate with an d physically touch his
father. Man is a mental and spiritual being and will always
have a body. A billion years from now you will be alive
somewhere functioning at a higher degree of awareness, as
life is an endless unfoldment, and your journey is ever
onward, upward, and Godward.
Conscious Apparition of a Mother to Her Daughter
Interviewing and corresponding with men and women of
all walks of life, I often hear of many extraordinary and
fascinating episodes in their lives which they hesitate to
discuss with relatives or social acquaintances lest they be
considered eccentric, peculiar, or mentally disoriented.
A mother living in Beverly Hills was deeply concerned
over her daughter, who was ill in New York City. She
informed me that one night she focused all her attention on
her daughter, praying for her harmony, health, and peace of
mind by realizing the God-Presence was flowing through her
daughter as harmony, beauty, love, and peace. The following
example illustrates extrasensory proj ection of her fourth­
dimensional body :
She found herself in the private room in the hospital
where her daughter was lying awake in bed. Her daughter
said, "Oh, mother! I am so glad you came . " She and her
daughter embraced and kissed each other. The daughter
heard her mother's soothing words and felt her embrace
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clearly. This mother smiled and nodded to the nurse in
attendance. Suddenly she decided to return to her body in
Beverly Hills, which she saw propped up in bed as she had
left it, but she had the distinct awareness of another body to
which matter of any kind, such as doors, walls, etc., offered
no resistance. Then she re-entered her body.
This type of experience happens to many people who
may have great emotional stress and a deep concern to be
near a loved one. This is true particularly in time of crisis,
when on going to sleep with the dominant idea of being with
the loved one, the subconscious mind is impregnated, and
they find themselves on extrasensory excursions to the
location desired. They are perfectly aware of their physical
bodies at the time they leave them and at the time they
return to them.
New York Detective Solves Case
Through Extrasensory Travel
While attending the International New Thought C:on­
vention in July, 1 969, I met an old friend who has been on
the detective squad in New York for many years. I gave a
lecture on extrasensory perception at that meeting. Subse­
quently he said to me, "I have something to tell you which
will interest you." He had been assigned to a case involving a
large robbery, and after three months had not received a
single clue. One night in bed he was reading The Po wer of
Your Subconscious Mind * and fell asleep thinking of the
solution to his assignment. Immediately he found himself
going through a window in an upstate town in New York
State with which he was totally unfamiliar. He noticed three
men talking and saw jewels, watches, cameras, and furs
•Dr. Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (Englewood Cliffs,
N.J. : Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963) .
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stacked up on tables. He perceived newspapers and their
titles, heard the men talking, and decreed to himself, "They
will not see me." He looked out the window and saw the
street name as well as the name of the theatre which was
directly opposite.
Suddenly he realized these were the men he was looking
for. There were three rooms in the apartment. He knew he
was operating in a proj ected body which was tangible to him
and capable of motion in any direction he wished. He was
aware of the magazines that they were reading and knew the
town where they were hiding. He said he consciously
decreed, "I want to go back to New York now," and
immediately he found himself back in his body in his New
York apartment.
When he awakened, he called headquarters, and they
alerted the local police in that town. They found all the
stolen goods and arrested the three men, who were startled to
find six fully armed policemen in their apartment at 3 : 00
A.M. This detective told me that he had told his department
he had received a tip as to their whereabouts, adding that if
he had informed his superiors of his extrasensory travel they
would have suggested he go to the Department psychiatrist
for observation and treatment.
To be able to account for this solution on the part of
the detective, I am convinced that due to his emotional
energy being directed towards a solution prior to sleep, he
had activated the wisdom of his subconscious mind, which
proj ected his personality in a subtle body in which he was
able to see, hear, travel, and understand everything going on
around him as well as to direct its own mobility at will. Also,
he had the intelligence and reasoning capacity to decree that
he could not be seen by the thieves whom he was seeking. All
this and much more are latent powers of man's deeper mind.
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Through Extrasensory Perception
She Knows Her Son Is Alive
During the course of writing this book, I received a very
interesting letter from a woman in Arizona in which she
stated that her son had been reported missing in Vietnam.
She was distraught, wondering whether he was dead or alive.
She stated that she was very tense, worried, and torn between
her hopes, fears and growing despair. One night however, she
began to read Th e Po wer of Your Su bconscious Min d * and
· asked her deeper mind prior to sleep, "Tell me whether my
son is dead or alive." I mmediately, in the sleeping state, she
had a clairvoyant vision of her son, who stood out promi­
nently. She saw his bare feet and long beard and the prison
walls which surrounded him and the cot on which he slept.
She discerned the details of his environment and knew
intuitively he was alive and well.
Subsequent information which she received revealed
that her son had been taken prisoner, and she later received a
letter from him which was surreptitiously smuggled out of
the prison. Her subconscious had revealed the answer to her
in its own way, and to her it was unmistakable evidence .
Extrasensory Perception Reveals Lost Topaz
A doctor friend asked me if I could help her to recover
her lost ring through prayer. This treasured heirloom had
been handed down through the family for generations and
was of great value. Oftentimes on going to sleep, I concen­
trate on a request which someone has brought me during the
day. In order to do this, I have a clear impression of the
person, of our interview and the nature of the problem, and
then I affirm something like this : "Infinite Intelligence
knows where that topaz is, and it reveals the answer to the
*Dr. Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963).
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doctor and t o myself in Divine order. I accept the answer." I
then drop off to the deep of sleep knowing that the answer is
mine now.
While I was asleep, in this insta�ce, a scene flashed
before my vision similar to a motion picture moving on the
screen, and I perceived a woman of foreign origin wearing the
ring and asking an older woman, presumably her mother, the
value of it. I noticed the color of her apparel, and her hair,
which was very gray and hanging down around her shoulders.
She had lost some teeth in the front of her mouth and there.
was a mole on her face.
I phoned my doctor friend in the morning and told her
of my experience. She exclaimed, "You described my maid
perfectly. She has been with me for 20 years. She couldn' t do
that. I t can't be." I suggested that she tell the maid what her
minister said and what he heard her say to her mother, and
she did. The maid shed copious tears and said that she had
taken the ring merely to show it to her mother and that she
had no intention of keeping it ; however, the doctor had
searched everywhere for it for two months and the maid had
helped her in the so-called search, while all the time knowing
in her heart that she had stolen it .
My subconscious had revealed the truth about the
situation. I ts ways and responses are past finding out.
Dr. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby of Maine Experiments
with Oairvoyance and Extrasensory Travel in May, 1 862
I will relate an experiment that I performed
with my subject Lucius in mesmerism. I asked any
person in the room to give me the name of an
individual written on a slip of paper. I would send
the boy to find the person dead or alive, which he
would do bringing him into the room and describ­
ing him to the audience. On one occasion a name
was handed to me which I gave as usual to the boy.
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He said this was a man who had a wife and three
children, that he left town between two days, was
a carpenter by trade, and had left his chest of tools
in a barn and had gone direct to Boston. I told him
to follow the man, so he went and said he had
found him in Ohio in a cooper's shop where he had
died. Still I told him to find him.
Finally he said he had found him and I told
him to bring him before the people and describe
him. Said he, "Can't you see him, he stands here."
I answered the boy that he was in a mesmeric state
(he could never understand this but admitted it
because I said so). To him there was no change, he
had all his faculties and his identity was as perfect
as when awake. He expressed fear and joy at what
he saw as much as though he had been in a waking
state. I said, describe him. He commenced giving a
general description and I stopped him saying if
there was any peculiar trait or feature about him,
to mention it. "Well," said he, "I should think
anyone might know this man by his harelip." I
asked the person who gave me the name if this
description was correct and he said it was in every
particular. Here was a clear case of spiritualism.
The subject would read sealed letters, he would go
to a distant place and ask a person a question and
get an answer, and yet the person would not be
aware of answering any question.
The above report is taken from the writings of Dr.
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby written in May, 1 862. Dr. Quimby
knew that there was someone in the audience who was
acquainted with the person in question and that his subject
Lucius, who was in a mesmeric trance, was clairvoyant and
could read the subconscious of the person who knew the
missing man, the image of which was in his subconscious
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mind; and Quimby knew he would reveal his description in
detail, including the harelip. Moreover, his trade , family, and
where he lived were all known to one or more members of
the audience, and Lucius in the trance state simply tapped
the subconscious of those present. Quimby used the term
"spiritualism" to describe it. Today we would call it "sub­
jective clairvoyance" on the part of his hypnotized subject.
One of the abilities of the subconscious is its ease in acquiring
information by clairvoyance.
Dr. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby's Experiment
in Travelling Oairvoyance
When at Eastport, I put a lady into a mes­
meric sleep who wished to go to New Hampshire,
to see her friends. I accompanied her. She would
smile and bow, and when I asked her to whom she
bowed, she said it is our postmaster. She then said
we have now got home. She said our folks are
looking. I asked her if her father was at home and
if she might introduce me and she went through
the ceremony. I said ask your father if anything
has happened since you left home; at this she
started and turned pale and seemed agitated. Upon
asking what was the trouble, she said that her uncle
was dead, that he was taken sick and had died on
such a day and now, mentioning both, also her
aunt who came to take care of him had been sick
but had recovered and her brother had carried her
home. All this was confirmed in a few days by
letter. Her uncle Dr. Richardson sent me a letter
which I have in my possession, stating that all she
had said was literally true.
I might give many experiments of this kind.
When I sit by the sick, they tell me their feelings
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yet they know it not through their natural senses,
neither am I a ware of their presence or feelings
through the natural organs. But every person has
two identities, one has substance and the other the
'
shadow. To me the natural man is the shadow, but
to himself, he is the substance and all that he
cannot comprehend is shadow.
A person in a mesmeric state proves to a
person in a waking state that there are two states
and each is a mystery to the other. The one in a
waking state cannot see how a person can be dead
to the waking state and still retain his own identity
and be to himself the same person as before, and
when he comes into the natural state, the mesmeric
state is lost. The mesmerized person cannot under­
stand why the person in the natural state cannot
know what he knows in the mesmeric state. So
each one is a mystery to the other.
Here is the fact. Wisdom has no shadow; a
belief has one. A fact is not a soli d : for instance,
there is a stone, tha t is a fact, and it casts a
shadow. The stone being the invention of man, it is
matter according to our belief1 and this belief
makes it a shadow. Man acts either by his belief or
his wisdom. When he is in his wisdom, he is to
opinion a spirit, but to him he is himself with all
his beliefs. So as his belief makes him act in matter,
every act is in his belief and the acknowledging of
matter depends on his belief.
In the above report, written in May , 1 86 2 , taken from
Quimby's writings, Dr. Quimby mentions that each one of us
has two identities, which in our modem terminology repre­
sent
our spiritual nature and our five-sense condi tioning
based on our training, indoctrination, environmental influ­
ence, and traditional beliefs, but underneath it all is the
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Living Spirit Almighty-the Presence of God-and as Dr.
Quimby points out, in the mesmeric or hypnotic state,
extraordinary powers of our mind are revealed which tran­
scend the intellect and that of our conscious, reasoning mind.
He reveals how he sent a young lady who was in a mesmeric
sleep on a clairvoyant journey to her home, where she saw
everything that was going on at the moment, as well as events
such as the death of an uncle which had happened some days
previously. Dr. Quimby, who was clairvoyant in the passive
state, accompanied her mentally and saw everything she did.
Quimby knew that in the subj ective mind there is no time or
space ; therefore, the young woman was in her home in New
Hampshire instantaneously.
Such are some of the wonders of the mind which Dr.
Quimby brought to light in May, 1 862.
POINTS TO REMEMBER
1 . Many people have what they term strange, out-of­
the-body ex periences, which they hesitate to talk
about lest they be considered crackpots or be
accused of mental aberrations and fantasies.
2. A mother who is greatly concerned about a daugh­
ter's illness, who is in a distant city , while concen­
trating on her daughter prior to sleep, may be
proj ected by her subconscious mind in a subtle body
to her daughter's bedside. She can converse with,
kiss, and embrace her daughter as well as experience
other visual, auditory , and tactile capacities in her
fourth-dimensional body.
3. A son living in Los Angeles finCls himself at the
bedside of his father in Sydney , Australia, and is
consciously aware of everything in his father's house.
He enters through closed doors and appears to his
father, who is startled at his sudden, unannounced
visit. Subsequent letters from his father confirm his
astral travel in every detail.
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4
.
.
Frequently, prior t o sleep, when you find yourself
praying for a loved one or a close friend in whom
you are intensely interested, you may find that the
person sees you clearly. You also may see the loved
one and be able to converse with him as well as
describe everything in the hospital room, while at the
same time nodding and recognizing the nurse, who,
for her part, may also see you clearly and assume you
are a relative visiting the patient. You appear fully
clothed with all your faculties, as you are a mental
and spiritual being capable of thinking, seeing, feel­
ing,
and
travelling
independent
of
your
three­
dimensional body.
5. A detective, requesting his subconscious mind to
reveal to him the whereabouts of thieves who have
robbed several homes, finds himself in their hideout
and mentally decrees he will not be seen by them ;
thereupon, he collects all the data necessary to make
an arrest. He finds he is able to move ponderable
obj ects and directs the motion of his subtle body in
any direction. He has volition, choice, and initiative.
In other words, he is a conscious, reasoning being
functioning completely independent of his t hree­
dimensional body.
6. A woman in deep despair, wondering whether her
son
who was reported missing is alive or dead,
decided t o ask his
whereabouts specifically and
believingly of her subconscious mind. Consequently,
in the sleep state, she became clairvoyant and saw
her son, garbed as a prisoner, in Vietnam, and even
the contents of his cell, and was immediately aware
that he was alive and well. Subsequent events cor­
roborated her extrasensory experience.
7. A doctor who had lost a very valuable topaz asked
the author to help her locate it through prayer. In
the dream state, I saw a foreign looking woman
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wearing the topaz in question, heard her conversa­
tion about its value, saw the mole on her face and
observed that three front teeth were missing. When I
described the woman to my doctor friend, she
realized at once it was her maid who had stolen the
ring and she recovered it easily .
8. Dr. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, in 1 862, conducted
experiments in travelling clairvoyance. In one
instance he hypnotized a woman, who became clair­
voyant, and he sent her to her former home, where
she reported accurately everything going on, intro­
ducing him to the postmaster as well as revealing the
death of an uncle and other intimate details, all of
which were subsequently verified in detail. Quimby
followed her on her mental journey, as he was
clairvoyant without going into a trance state. He
demonstrated the supernormal powers of the mind.
9. In another instance, Dr. Quimby demonstrated that
his subject, Lucius, who became clairvoyant in the
trance state, could graphically portray in detail a
man who was missing, describing him, his occupa­
tion, members of his family, his movements and
whereabouts. Dr. Quimby knew that some member
of the audience was acquainted with the man in
question, and Lucius, in the trance state, simply
tapped the subconscious mind of the questioner,
who had a complete memory picture of the missing
man and knew all about him. These are the wonders
of your subconscious mind.
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Extrasensory Perception and Healing
One of the most interesting and fascinating faculties of
the human mind is that of prevision, or the capacity to
visualize a future event before it occurs on the screen of
space. During consultation work and while conducting inter­
views with
people
in many
walks of life, I have been
informed of remarkable healings and the saving of loved ones'
lives through ex trasensory perception.
How a Mother's Prayer Saved Her Son's Foot
I interviewed a woman a few weeks ago regarding a
domestic problem, and during the consultation she told me
about an interesting and remarkable episode in her prayer
life. Her son had phoned her from a Vietnam hospital , asking
her to pray for him. He told her that his foot was gangrenous
and that the surgeon thought he would have to amputate it.
But the son had said to the surgeon, "My mother prays for
people and they get well. " The doctor had encouraged him,
saying, "Go ahead. Call her."
She said to me that she sat still after the phone call,
mentioned her son's name and affirmed : "My son is known
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in Divine Mind. God in the midst of him is healing him now,
and I give thanks for the action of God which is taking place
now." She quietly affirmed this simple prayer over and over
again in a quiet, passive, relaxed manner, and after about one
hour sh'e fell asleep. In a dream she saw her son and he spoke
to her, saying, "Mom, I'll keep my foot. It is wonderful! "
She awakened i n the morning with a great sense of peace and
tranquility. Subsequent news from her son confirmed her
deep conviction in the healing power of God.
This mother knew there was no time or space in the
mind principle and that her deep realization of the Infinite
Healing Presence would be resurrected in the subconscious of
her son thousands of miles away. Her favorite Bible verse
which she used was : What things soever ye desire, when ye
pray, believe tha t y e receive them and ye shall have them
(Mark 1 1 : 24).
How a Wife's Dream of Her Husband's
Heart Attack Helped Avert a Tragedy
While writing this chapter in between interviews, I find I
get a lot of rich material from listening to people who have
had extraordinary experiences with extrasensory perception,
and who hesitate to mention their experiences to their closest
friends and relatives lest they be ridiculed or thought of as "a
little off the beam."
This brilliant young wife who came to see me about how
she should pray scientifically for her young son, told me that
a few weeks ago she had fallen asleep after lunch on her divan
and had had a very disturbing dream. She felt she was seeing
her husband driving his car on the way to Las Vegas, and he
was clutching his heart while the car was careening out of
control.
Suddenly she awoke with a sense of fear and trepidation
and with apprehension of disaster. She opened the Bible and
read aloud the 9 l st Psalm, the great psalm of protection,
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changing the tense to the present, and prayed for her
husband for about a half an hour, starting off with: "He
dwells in the secret place . . . He abides under the shadow of
the Almighty . . . His angels watch over my husband, to keep
him in all thy ways," and other passages, such as, "God is
healing him now" and "God's love flows through him,
making him whole and perfect." Gradually a sense of peace
came over her.
Later in the day she learned that her husband had had a
severe heart attack and had lost consciousness. A passing
motorist had come upon the car motionless in the middle of
the road with a man slouched over the wheel. He investigated
and discovered some heart pills in the driver's hand, which,
obviously, he was about to take when the sudden attack
immobilized him. The motorist put a tablet in the mouth of
the stricken motorist and transported him to the hospital,
where he had a remarkable recovery in a very short period of
time. The motorist told her that it seemed a miracle how the
car had come to a stop, as her husband's foot was not on the
brake and he was completely unconscious.
This woman's prayer that "angels watch over her
husband" acted in the mind of the passing good Samaritan,
and he proved to be an angel of mercy and compassion. This
wife's prayer and deep, abiding conviction in the Infinite
Healing Presence which indwells all of us, acted on the
subconscious of her husband 1 00 miles away, bringing about
an appropriate rescue and a remarkable healing to his dam­
aged heart. She added that cardiac tests revealed what the
doctors termed a remarlsa ble recovery.
How Oairaudience Saved a Platoon of Soldiers
On a plane trip to New York last year, I sat next to an
officer who had recently returned from Vietnam , and during
our conversation he informed me about his experience with
extrasensory perception and about the voice he had heard
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from "nowhere." He and his men were under orders to
conduct a reconnaissance in a certain jungle area. As they
walked slowly along, he heard his sister's voice say clearly
and distinctly, "There's a mine in front of you. Stop ! Stop!
Sto p ! " Immediately he issued the order to halt, and they
found a land mine secreted a few yards away. Undoubtedly,
they would have been mangled or perhaps even killed had
they gone ahead.
His sister was a nun teaching in a convent in Ireland , and
he said that she prayed for him regularly every night and
morning as well as at daily mass, always claiming, "The Lord
is my brother's light and his salvation . "
From the standpoint of geography , this officer knew
that his sister was thousands of miles away. Having a degree
in psychology, he realized that the voice he had heard was a
warning from his own subconscious mind, which sought to
protect him and which indubitably had responded forcefully
to his sister's prayer. The urges, whisperings, monitions, and
intuitions of your subconscious mind are always lifeward.
They seek to protect you at all times, as self-preservation is
the first law of nature. Be sure to listen to that inner
. prompting, that silent, inner knowing of your own soul.
In times of great emergency or acute danger, often you
will discover that your subconscious mind projects the voice
of a person whom you will immediately obey and accept as
true. The inner voice which seeks to protect you would,
therefore, not be the voice of someone you disliked or
distrusted.
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Th e centurion sen t friends to h im, saying unto
him,
Lord,
trouble
not thyself: for I am n o t
worthy that thou shouldest en ter under my roof .
say in a word, and my servan t shall be healed
( Luke 7 : 6,7).
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Here is a technique of absent treatment, or extrasensory
healing. You are told how to pray for another or send your
word and heal him. When you pray for another or give what
is
termed a mental and spiritual treatment, you simply
correct what you hear and see in your mind by knowing and
feeling the other's freedom, wholeness and. peace of mind.
Your word in Bible language is your deep, abiding faith
and conviction in the response of the infinite healing pre­
sence to your belief.
This is how you send the word to heal or help the other
person: The first thing you do is think of all that you know
about God, such as, "God is boundless love, absolute har­
mony, infinite life, all powerful, all bliss, the living spirit
almighty within me." Realize that there is nothing to change
but your thought. Do not use force or mental coercion of
any kind. Let go, relax, realize you are a channel resur­
recting the wholeness and harmony of the infinite from the
invisible to the visible.
When praying for another, affirm quietly : "God is the
only Presence and Power. I claim, feel and know that the
uplifting, healing and strengthening power of the Infinite
Healing Presence is flowing through John or Mary, m aking
him or her whole, relaxed, and perfect. I claim and know that
the harmony, beauty, and life of God are now being mani­
fested in you as strength, peace, vitality, beauty, w holeness,
and right action." Feel the truth of what you affirm, and as
you get a clear realization of this, the sick condition will
dissolve in the light of God's love.
The test of your faith and confidence is a mental state
of rest and serenity. Maintain the quiet mind and pray again
for the person when you feel guided to do so; gradually, you
will build up a conditioned state of mind, and the day breaks
and all the shadows flee.
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The Dying Man Sat Up and Began to Speak
Recently I gave a lecture at the beautiful Religious Science
Church in Oakland, California; and while there, a man visited
me in the hotel for the express purpose of finding out how he
and his wife should pray together. During the course of the
interview, he spoke along these lines: that he believed in the
powers of the subconscious mind,* and that he had read the:
book over and over about 1 5 times, and furthermore that he
had diligently practiced what he had read.
His son, who is of the Evangelical Church, and who
takes the Bible literally, was very ill, actually in a comatose
condition for a few days. Not too much hope was given by
his doctors, though they did everything possible for him and
were very kind and considerate.
One day a� this man prayed for guidance, he visited his
son, who didn't seem to recognize him and lapsed off into a
lethargic sleep. The father said out loud to the son's subcon­
scious, "Son, Jesus is right here now and you see him. Jesus is
going to heal you now. He is putting his hands on you now.
You feel the touch right now."
He
repeated
these
statements several
times slowly,
gently, and positively. His son was unconscious when he .
spoke and apparently was not aware of his father's presence.
After about ten minutes, the son sat up in bed, opened his
eyes and said, "Hello, Dad. Jesus came and touched me. I
know I am healed. He said to me, 'I say unto thee, Arise.' "
His son was discharge d two days later, completely healed.
Wha t happened? This boy's subconscious mind accepted
his father's statement that Jesus was there and his subcon­
scious mind proj ected the thought form ; i.e., this boy's
religious concept of Jesus was portrayed to him while he
slept, based on the images in his prayer book, paintings,
*Dr. Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1 963).
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church statues, etc. This boy blindly believed that Jesus was
there in the flesh and that he had placed his hands upon him.
His blind belief was registered in his subconscious, and it
responded accordingly.
You can tell a man in a trance that his grandmother is
here now and that he will see her clearly. He will see what he
believes to be his grandmother. His subconscious proj ects the
image of his grandmother, based on his subconscious memory
picture. You can give the same man a post-hypnotic sug­
gestion, saying to him, "When you come out of the trance,
you will greet your grandmother and talk with her." He does
exactly that.
This is called a subj ective hallucination. The faith
kindled in the subconscious of this man's son was the healing
factor. · It is always done unto us according to our faith or
mental conviction.
The Resurrection of the So-Called Dead
The subconscious is amenable to suggestion even though the
subject is unconscious. The deeper mind can receive and act
upon the suggestion of the operator. In a sense, you could
call such an incidence the resurrection of the dead. I t is the
resurrection of health, faith, confidence, and vitality.
The Woman Refused to Consult a Doctor of Medicine
A woman phoned me from New Orleans, saying that she
felt very weak and had collapsed three times during the week
after some slight exertion in her home. I suggested that she
consult a doctor at once and get a checkup, and that she pray
both for him and for herself, while being continuously aware
that God is guiding her and her doctor, and that God in the
midst of her is healing her now.
She said, " I hate doctors, nurses, and pills. My husband
insists I go to a doctor, but I believe God can heal me." I
explained to her that while being full of hate, she is thereby
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blocking the healing stream of love and joy, and that she
must let the sunshine of God's love enter into her heart. Her
mental resistance sets up a resistance to the Healing Presence
and a short circuit takes place. She was adamant, saying, "I'm
not going to any doctor." Her husband later told me that
that same day she collapsed suddenly and was rushed to the
hospital, where she died of coronary thrombosis.
Her husband had been begging her to submit to a
medical examination. If she had done so, her condition
would have been discovered, and, undoubtedly, alleviated.
Her life would have been prolonged. Right medical care plus
prayer therapy, working together, would have blessed her in
many ways. God indwells the doctor, the dentist, the osteo­
path, and the chiropractor. Every man is a temple of the
living God.
Why You Should Honor the Physician
In the Book of Ecclesiasticus, Chapter 3 8 , Paragraphs l
and 2, you read these words:
Ho nour a physician with the honour due unto
him for the uses which ye may have of him: for the
Lord hath created him.
For of the Most High
cometh healing, and he shall receive honour of the
king . . . the Lord hath created medicines o u t of
the earth ; and he that is wise will n o t abhor
them . . . And he hath given men skill, that he
migh t be honoured in his marvelous works.
My son, in thy sickness be n o t negligent; but
pray
unto
the Lord,
and he
will make
thee
whole . . . Then give place to the physician, for the
Lord hath created him: let him not go fro m thee,
for thou hast need of him. There is a time when in
their hands there is good success. For they shall
also pray un to the Lord, that he would prosper
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they give for ease and remedy to
prolong /ife . . .
These verses are very wise and are saying to y ou that
you demonstrate at your level of belief. I f you do not get
well by prayer, see a doctor. If you have the conviction of
the presence of God where the trouble is, it will disappear; if
not, do the next best thing-immediately. If your prayers are
successful, health should spring forth speedily. Remember, if
you can't grow a tooth or mend a broken bone at once
through prayer, better see a dentist for your tooth and a
surgeon for your bone. This is common sense and certainly
much better than being a cripple for life.
Why the Atheist Had a Remarkable Healing at a Shrine
Healings occur sometimes unheralded at various reli­
gious services. Many people have told me that they have had
heatings at our healing services on Sunday mornings. They
add that they did not expect a healing, that they were
skeptical, that they were in no state of exaltation, and that
they were not even thinking of a healing. From what they
say, one would gather that they lacked faith ; therefore, the
question arises: How could they receive a healing?
The answer is rather simple. All of them, whether
atheists or agnostics or believers, are looking for a healing,
and their minds are receptive to receive the prayers o f the
multitude present. Perhaps they are going to a medical
doctor, osteopath, or chiropractor for treatment, which is
highly indicative that they desire to be healed. Desire is
prayer, and God will answer the prayer of an atheist if he
believes just as well as that of any religious person, as God
with His law is no respecter of persons. Desiring a healing
causes a receptive attitude of mind which also causes the idea
of perfect health to be resurrected in the subconscious mind.
Tha t is what the people present at church or at a shrine are
praying for.
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When the so-called atheist mentioned in this subtitle
mingled with a group of people gathered together in prayer at
a shrine, who were affirming that all those present are healed,
made whole and perfect, he established a definite psycho­
logical and spiritual link with all those present. It is thus
possible for him to be healed, as the healing vibrations
emanating from all those dedicated people present impinge
on the subconscious mind of the atheist, transforming the
negative patterns and making way for the healing power of
his subconscious to be resurrected. Collective prayer neutral­
ized the mental poisons of his subconscious mind and made
way for the spirit of wholeness and beauty to enter in.
POINTS TO REMEMBER
1 . Prevision is the capacity of your deeper mind to see
2
a future event before it happens.
A mother can pray for a son thousands of miles
away ; and by dwelling on the thought, "God in the
midst of him is healing him now" until her mind is
at peace, her conviction of God's healing presence is
resurrected in the subconscious of her son ; his foot
is healed. There is no time or space in the mind­
principle, and his mother's inner realization is made
manifest immediately in the experience of her son.
3. Husbands and wives are subconsciously linked
together. It is possible for a wife to perceive an
acute illness of her husband in a dream state and,
through prayer, prevent a tragedy. In this case, a
wife in a dream state saw her husband have a
cardiac attack while driving a car. She turned to
prayer, and her prayer was answered.
4. An officer on patrol in Vietnam with his platoon
heard his sister's voice saying, "There is a mine in
front of you. Stop ! " He obeyed instantly and saved
the lives of himself and his platoon.
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5. When the Bible says, ''He sent his word and healed
them," it means you don't have to visit the sick
person, who may be thousands of miles away. But
knowing that mind is timeless, spaceless, one, and
indivisible, one can enter into a deep conviction of
God's healing power. Your inner knowing and
belief will be felt by the sick person, and a healing
will follow.
6. A father realized that the subconscious mind of his
son, who was in a comatose condition, was amena­
ble to suggestion. He made powerful s.uggestions to
his son, who was unconscious, by affirming, "Jesus
is here. He is touching you now. Jesus is healing
you now." The boy saw the thought form of Jesus
in his unconscious state. Believing it was Jesus, he
was healed. His blind belief healed him, as his
subconscious. will respond whether the object of his
belief is true or false. The healing power o f the
subconscious is the only healing power regardless of
all techniques, processes, rituals, ceremonies, talis­
mans, shrines, or frills.
7 . When you are sick and when you pray, if you do
not get results immediately, go and see a doctor at
once.
8. Many religious fanatics refuse to go to doctors
when they are seriously ill. In their superstitious
beliefs they think it wrong to do so. All this is a
mild form of insanity. Extremes are always danger­
ous. After prayer, health should spring forth speed­
ily; if it doesn't, it means you don't have the faith
you think you have. Go to a doctor, bless him, and
keep on praying for health and harmony. Remem­
ber, your longing for faith is not real faith. Real
faith is made manifest right here and now. Count­
less thousands would be alive today if they had
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consulted a doctor in time instead of resenting
medical help and in that way blocking a healing.
9. The Book of Ecclesiasticus, Chapter 38, states
definitely and categorically , Give place to the
physician for the Lord hath created him . . . for
thou hast need of him.
1 0. An atheist can get answers to his prayers, for the
laws of mind are impersonal. -If he is desirous of a
healing and is going to a doctor for treatment and
visits a healing shrine where people are praying, it is
possible for the collective healing consciousness of
those praying to penetrate his subconscious, result­
ing in a healing.
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Why You Will Live Forever
Thousands of years ago, Job asked, "If a man die, shall
he live again?" God is Life, and Life cannot die. Life cannot
die. Life has no beginning and no end. Every person walking
the earth is God or Life in manifestation.
Your body is an instrument or vehicle through which
the life-principle is expressed. You will always have a body of
some sort, no matter in what dimension of life you function.
So-called death is not the end ; it is only a beginning.
You will arrive at your new destination, actually, when you
pass on from this three-dimensional to a fourth-dimensional
existence, and you will look upon it as a new birth. You will
possess a new, fourth-dimensional body which is rarefied and
attenuated by our standards, enabling you to go through
closed doors, to collapse time and space, and to be where you
want to be through the medium of your thought.
Milton said, "Death is the golden key that opens the
palace of eternity." The journey of every man is from glory
to glory, from octave to octave, and through the many
mansions of our Father's house.
When you pass to the next dimension of life, you will
see and be seen. You will recognize loved ones. You will
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possess all your faculties as an individual. When you came
into this world, you were met by loving hands, who took care
of you; you were fondled, coddled, and cosseted. And what
is true on this plane is true on all planes. You will meet loved
ones who will care for you and who will initiate you into the
activities of the next dimension of life.
Life Is Progression
Your life is an endless unfoldment-ever onward,
upward, and God ward. You can't go backward, for the urge
of life is progression, expansion and growth. God is Infinite
Life. This Life is your life now ; therefore, there is no end to
your newness, freedom, and spiritual awareness. Never in all
eternity could you exhaust the wonders and glories that are
within you.
In the 1 5 th Chapter of the First Book of Corinthians,
Paul says: There are also celestial bo dies, and bodies terres­
trial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the
terrestrial is ano ther. And as we have borne the image of the
earthly, we shall also have the image of the heavenly.
You Live Forever
In the above-mentioned Biblical quotation, Paul is
saying that there really is no death and that all men and
women are immortal. Every child born in your home is
simply Life taking on that form. This in scriptural language is
God (life-principle) coming down from Heaven (invisible
state) and appearing on earth, or being made manifest. When
your present body ceases to function perfectly, you will put
on a fourth-dimensional body, referred to frequently as an
astral body, subtle body, celestial body, subjective body, etc.
You can't take any earthly possessions with you, but you do
take all that you have ever learned and believed about God,
life, and the universe ; in other words, you take the sum total
of your beliefs, convictions, impressions, and awareness.
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Fourth-Dimensional Teachers Attend Lectures
Frequently some psychics, clairvoyants, and similarly
gifted people speak to me following lectures on Sunday
mornings at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. They
describe men sitting on the platform while I am speaking. I
have asked them to describe the men they purportedly saw,
and in each instance they have accurately described the
following teachers ih the next dimension : Dr. Emmet Fox,
author of Sermon on the Mo un t; Judge �omas Troward,
author of six books on Mental Science ; and Dr. Harry Gaze,
author of Emmett Fox, the Man and His Work. They have
also accurately described my father, who passed on many
years ago, as well as my sister and other relatives and
teachers. In no instance had these sensitives ever met any of
my relatives or the teachers referred to in this chapter;
neither had they read any of their works or seen photographs
of them.
I do not look upon their perception and experience as
unusual, as there is no reason whatever why men and women
who are spiritually developed can't attend spiritual gatherings
whenever they wish and appear and reappear at will. I have
not seen the men and women mentioned on the platform,
but several people present who are highly sensitive and
clairvoyant see these fourth-dimensional beings frequently on
· the platform Sunday mornings and sometimes at my classes
on the I Ching, Tarot Symbolism, and the e$Oteric meaning
of the Bible.
Spiritually Advanced Individuals
Can Appear and Reappear at Will
Judge Thomas Troward, author of The Edinburgh Lec­
tures on Mental Science and many other books, including his
foremost book called The Creative Process in the Individual,
spent the greater part of his life as a judge in the Punjab o f
India. I quote from The Creative Process i n the Individual
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(first published in 1 9 1 5 by Dodd, Mead and Company), as
follows:
Manifestation is the growth proceeding from
the principle, that is to say, some Form in which
the principle becomes active. At the same time we
must recollect that, though a form is necessary for
manifestation, the form is not essential, for the
same principle may manifest through various
forms, j ust as electricity may work either through a
lamp or a tram-car without in any way changing its
inherent nature. I n this way we are brought to the
conclusion that the Life-principle must always
provide itself with a body in which to function,
though it does not follow that this body must
always be of the same chemical constitution as the
one we now possess. We might well imagine some
distant planet where the chemical combinations
with which we are familiar on earth did not obtain ;
but if the essential life-principle of any individual
were transported thither, then by the Law of the
Creative Process it would proceed to clothe itself
with a material body drawn from the atmosphere
and substance of that planet ; and the personality
thus produced would be quite at home there, for
all his surroundings would be perfectly natural to
him, however different the laws of Nature might be
there from what we know here.
In such a conception as this we find the
importance of the two leading principles to which I
have drawn attention-first, the power of the Spirit
to create ex nihilo, and secondly, the individual's
recognition of the basic principle of Unity giving
permanence and solidity to the frame of Nature.
By the former the self-recognizing life-principle
could produce any sort of body it chose ; and by
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the latter it
would
be
led
to
project one in
harmony with the natural order o f the particular
planet, thus making all the facts of that order solid
realities to the individual, and himself a solid and
natural being to the other inhabitants of that
world.
But
this would not do away with the
individual's knowledge of how he got there ; and so,
supposing him to have realized his identity with the
Universal Life-Principle sufficiently to consciously
control the proj ection of his own body , he could at
will disintegrate the body which accorded with the
conditions of one planet and constitute one which
accorded
just
as
harmoniously
with
those
of
another, and could thus function on any number
of planets as a perfectly natural being on each of
them. He would in all respects resemble the other
inhabitants with one all-important exception, that
since he had attained to unity with his Creative
Principle he would not be tied by the laws of
matter as they were.
From the above paragraphs, you will glean that an
individual who is highly advanced spiritually and who senses
his oneness with the universal Life-Principle can proj ect
himself to any country or even other planets at will ; and the
Life-Principle, which is all-wise and all-knowing and which is
the only cause and substance, will proj ect a body in harmony
with the density of atmospheric pressure of the particular
planet ; in other words, he would be able to appear and
reappear at will.
For example : If you melt ice, you have water. If you
continue heating the water, you will have steam, which can
be invisible. But steam, water and ice are all one, vibrating at
a different molecular wave length. The functions and physical
properties of each are different. Likewise, you are spirit,
mind and body. They are all one, but each has a separate
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function. There is nothing illogical about a spiritually devel­
oped man living, let us say, in New York City and contem­
plating himself as being in Johannesburg finding himself in
the latter city instantaneously . He is a mental and spiritual
being and knows that mind and spirit are omnipresent and
that when he focusses on a certain location and decrees he is
there, automatically he dematerializes his body, which is
composed of atoms and molecules, which now appear invisi­
ble like the steam we mentioned. He then condenses down
the high molecular vibration to the three-dimensional body
and appears walking the streets of Johannesburg. This type of
man would also be able to go to the next dimension at will as
well as to other planets and to return when he wished to do
so.
A Dying Man Talks to His Father, Mother
and Son in the Next Dimension
Recently I visited a man who was dying of cancer,
which had metastasized over his body. He talked to me about
several thin� and we prayed together. He was perfectly
rational in his mind and began to talk to his father and
mother, who had left this world many years ago. He said,
"They are here and I am going with them." Then he said, "I
see John. I didn't know John was there ! " Neither did his
wife, who was present, know about John's presence. But one
week later she received a letter from India, where John (their
son) was stationed. John had passed on about the same time
that his father made the remark to me at the bedside.
Your Departed Loved Ones Are Right Where You Are
Your so-called dead relatives are all about you, and you
must cease believing that they are "dead and gone." They are
alive with the life of God and separated from us by frequency
only. You do not see cosmic rays, gamma rays, beta rays,
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alpha rays, ultraviolet rays, or infrared rays. Your physical
eyes are blind to the great invisible reality that lies around
you. You would see a different world if you began to see
through your inner eye
of clairvoyance ; and in similar
manner, what a vastly different world you would see if you
were as sensitive as the x-ray machine or infrared rays.
You might say to the writer that there is no one in your
room as you read this chapter, but tum the dial of your radio
or television set and, lo and behold, you see, or hear, people
talking, laughing, and dancing. You hear music, singing, and
the voices of men and women perhaps thousands of miles
away. All these programs fill the room where you are seated.
Man is a broadcasting and receiving station himself; that is
why he was able to invent a radio and a television apparatus,
because
all these powers an d faculties are within him,
submerged in most people, but still quite active in others who
walk the streets of your own city.
Eradicate That Hypnotic Spell
The average man is under a sort of hypnotic spell of
belief in death; but when he opens his spiritual eyes and lets
the accumulated scales of centuries of false beliefs fall away,
he will realize that he has an existence beyond time and space
as we know it, and he will see and feel the presence of those
whom he now calls "dead."
I have been at the bedside of many men and women
during their transition. They have shown no signs of fear.
Instinctively and intuitively , they feel they are entering into a
larger dimension of life. Thomas Edison was heard to say to
his physician before he died, "It is very beautiful over there."
All of us have a natural wistfulness regarding the state of our
loved ones after they leave this plane of life. We must realize
that with the dawn their happy faces smile which we have
"loved long since and lost a while."
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What the Poets Have Said About the Next Dimension of Life
Tennyson said:
Thou wilt not leave us in the dust ;
Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks
he was not made to die; and thou hast made him ;
thou art just.
Wordsworth said :
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The Soul that rises with us, our life's star
Hath had elsewhere its setting
And cometh from afar;
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home.
Whittier said:
And so beside the Silent Sea
I wait the muffled oar;
No harm from Him can come to me
On ocean or on shore.
I know not where His islands lift
Their fronded palms in air ;
I only know I cannot drift
Beyond His love and care.
Robert Browning said:
All that is, at all,
Lasts ever, past recall;
Earth changes, but thy soul
And God stand sure;
What entered into thee,
That was, is, and shall be ;
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Time's what runs back or stops;
Potter and clay endure.
All these men are saying the same thing; that is, that life
cannot produce death, as that would be a contradiction of its
own nature. Life is, was, and shall be.
The Departed Father Returns and Corrects a Wrong
An attorney friend of mine in Mexico told me that his
sister had hypnotized their father prior to his transition and
had given him a post-hypnotic suggestion that the largest
share of his fortune would be given to her. The father,
thereupon, acting under the hypnotic suggestion, followed
the order given his subconscious mind of which his conscious
mind was unaware.
One evening, shortly after the demise of their father, the
two were seated in the living room listening to a radio
program when their father appeared to them fully clothed
and
wearing the
same house jacket which had become
inextricably a part of his dress around the house. He was
angry and told his daughter how she had hypnotized him and
cheated her brother and directed her to make it right at once,
to which demand she immediately assented. In the next
dimension of life, the father knew that he had been taken
advantage of, and he decided to visit the daughter and correct
it. Undoubtedly, his intense desire to right the wrong and
bring about his true decision regarding the will charged his
subconscious with sufficient intensity to precipitate his per­
sonality into their living room.
This was not a ghost or a strange hallucination or
thought form, but the entire personality of their father, who
possessed all his faculties and who was able to talk and
instruct his daughter in righteousness and integrity.
A wonderful, informative, and scientific book to read
along similar lines as the above is Phan tasms of the Living by
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Edmund Gurney and Frederic Myers o f Cambridge, published
by the Society for Psychical Research, London.
How to Give the Oil of Joy for Mourning
You must never grieve nor mourn for departed loved
ones. Radiate the qualities of love, peace, and j oy to the
friend or relative who has passed over to a larger dimension
of life. Lift the other up in your mind and heart and rejoice
in his new birthday, knowing that Divine love and Divine life
are where he is. Realize that the dear ones who have passed
on are dwelling in a state of beauty, peace, and harmony.
You make the loved ones happy by this attitude of mind.
Instead of feeling that they are dead and gone and that they
are where their graves are, feel that the wisdom, intelligence,
and love of God are flowing through them in transcendent
loveliness. Whenever you think of a departed relative or
friend, silently bless him by affirming, "God loves you and
cares for you." Titls attitude of mind heals all grief and
sorrow for you and yours.
Entering Into a Higher Vibration
There is no one buried anyplace, whether in the soil or
far away at sea. The body is interred and undergoes dissolu­
tion, returning to its primordial elements. Modern, up-to­
date, scientific thinkers never visit graves, as there is nobody
there. To identify with the body in a grave and to put flowers
on the grave is to identify with limitation and finality, which
brings on disease and all kinds of loss to the person who
indulges in this custom. In the modern funeral, there is no
body in evidence, and the relatives meet for prayer and
meditation, celebrating the loved one's new birthday in God
as he moves onward, upward, and Godward.
POINTS TO REMEMBER
1 . God is life, and that is your life now. The Life-
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Principle hath n o beginning and no end ; therefore,
there is no end to your growth, expansion, and
unfoldment. A billion or a trillion years from now,
you will be alive somewhere expressing more and
more of the wonders and glories within you.
2. You will meet loved ones and other advanced souls
in the next dimension who will initiate you there
and help you on your journey that knows no end.
3. Life is a constant progression. Life neither goes
backward, nor tarries with yesterday. Your j ourney
is forward. It is newness and endless growth from
glory to glory.
4. Occasionally, as I lecture on Sunday mornings to a
very large audience, several sensitives who are clair­
voyant see fourth-dimensional men and women on
the platform where I lecture. Their descriptions of
them fit exactly these persons as I have known
them. These sensitives had never met any of these
people in the flesh ; people who have advanced
knowledge of spiritual and mental laws can go
where they want to go, as they are not bound by
time or space.
5 . Judge Thomas Troward, who wrote many out­
standing books on mental laws, points out that as a
man advances in his realization of his oneness with
the All-Originating Spirit, he can visit other planets
as well as any point on earth. He can do this by
focusing his attention on the spot he wishes to visit,
by disintegrating his present body and causing the
All-Originating Intelligence within him to reas­
semble and coalesce its atoms wherever on this
earth or on other planets he proj ects himself. The
All-Originating Intelligence would create a body
consonant with the density and atmospheric pres­
sure of whatever planet is selected.
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6. Occasionally, men and women who are about to
7.
8,.
9.
1 0.
depart from this plane see, hear, and talk to
departed relatives who are at their bedside to
comfort and aid them in their transition.
Your loved ones who have passed over are right
where you are; if you were clairvoyant, you could
see them and talk to them. They are separated from
you by frequency only. If you see a fan oscillating
at a very high speed, the blades and the fan itself
become invisible. Slow it down, however, and you
see the fan. It is the same idea regarding three­
dimensional and four-dimensional living.
Many of the poets intuitively perceived that man is
immortal and that trailing clouds of glory, we come
from God, which is our home. In God we live,
move, and have our being. God lives, moves, and
has His being in us. We are living in eternity now,
because God (the Life-Principle) is the reality of
each one of us.
It is possible for a departed father to reappear to
you from the next dimension and give you a
message of importance. His intense desire to correct
some wrong charges his subconscious sufficiently,
enabling him to do this.
Never mourn the so-called dead. Protracted grief is
selfishness, as you would be thinking of my loss,
my sorrow, my grief. Surround the loved one with
peace and harmony and realize that God's love
flows through him and the j oy of the Lord is his
strength. This attitude banishes all grief and desola­
tion. Suppose you had gone on first. Realize you
are sparing your loved ones all sense of loss, grief,
and loneliness. Rejoice in your loved one's new
birthday in God. You can't keep loved ones forever.
They are loaned to you from God and all must pass
on. This is a cosmic law and must be good or it
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would not be. Your children are not yours ; they
come from God through you, but not by you. The
child who lived for one hour here or who was born
dead still lives and is a grace-note in the grand
symphony of all creation.
1 1 . There is no one buried in a grave or vault. Never
visit a graveyard thinking there is someone there.
This induces lack, loss, and limitation, because you
are identifying with finality. The body is not the
person. Give the flowers of your heart to the loved
one right where you are. Realize the truth of the
23rd Psalm : Goodness an d mercy follo w them all
the days of their lives because they dwell in the
house of God forever.
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How Extrasensory Perception
Reveals Answers in Dreams
The Bible says : /, the Lord (subconscious mind) will
make myself kno.wn unto him in a vision and will speak un to
him in a dream (Numbers 1 2 : 6).
There are numerous references in the Bible to dreams,
visions, revelations, and warnings given to men during sleep.
Your subconscious mind is active 24 hours a day and never
sleeps. The Bible points out that J oseph was amazingly
accurate in his analyses of the dreams of Pharoah, and that
his mental acumen and sagacity in predicting the future
through the interpretation of dreams brought him praise,
honor, and recognition by the king.
Dreams have captivated scientists, scholars, mystics, and
philosophers down through the ages. Many answers to man's
most
acute problems have
been given in dreams. Since
Biblical days, various interpreters and expositors in every
country have been engaged in the analyses and interpreta­
tions of dreams. Freud, Jung, Adler, and many other dis­
tinguished psychologists and psychiatrists have studied the
symbols
portrayed
in
dreams,
1 01
and
by
interpreting the
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meaning to the conscious mind of the patient have released
hidden phobias, fixations and other mental complexes.
Your dreams are projections of the contents of your
subconscious mind, and in many instances, they answer your
problems and warn you regarding investments, journeys, and
marriage, as well as pitfalls of daily living. Your dream is a
dramatization of your subconscious mind and is not fatal­
istic. You mold, fashion, and shape your own future by your
thought and feeling. Anything in your subconscious is subject
to change, and when you know the laws of mind, you predict
your own future. Remember your future is your present
thinking made manifest, because your subconscious mind
faithfully reproduces your habitual thinking 24 hours a day.
The Meaning of the Symb ols in Y our Dreams
The symbols which appear -in your dreams are personal
and apply to each individual only ; the same symbol appearing
in the dream of a friend or other member of your family may
have a completely different meaning.
The Dream Reveals a Small Fortune in Dollar Bills
I once had a telephone call from a woman in New York
City, stating that her husband had told her prior to his
demise that he planned to take a large sum of money from
his private safe and invest it in a foreign country for greater
returns. A few days later he passed on, and when the safe
deposit box in the bank was opened, there was no cash, but
there was a record at the bank that two days previously he
had visited the vault. There was no trace or record of any
investment, and a winute inspection of his desk revealed no
clues.
I suggested to her that she turn her request over to her
subconscious mind, which knew the answer, and that it
would reveal the answer to her in its own way. She prayed as
follows prior to sleep: "My subconscious knows where my
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husband secreted that money, and I accept the answer and
believe implicitly the solution will come clearly into my
conscious mind." She quietly dwelled on the meaning of
these words, knowing they would be impressed on her
subconscious, thereby activating its response.
She had a very vivid dream in which she saw a small,
black box hidden behind a picture of Lincoln on the wall in
her husband's work den. She was shown in the dream how to
press a secret button, which could not be seen with the naked
eye. When she awakened, she rushed to the den, took down
the picture of Lincoln, and when she pressed the button
revealed in the dream, an opening appeared containing the
black box which in turn contained $ 5 0,000 in currency.
She discovered the treasures of her subconscious, which
knows all, sees all, and has the know-how of accomplishment.
You too can take a similar step in putting your ESP to work
in locating a treasure of any type that really belongs to you.
How a Dream Prevented a Great Psychological Shock
A young woman in San Francisco experienced a recur­
rent dream for four consecutive nights. I n her dream, her
fiance, who was living in Los Angeles, appeared to her and
quite suddenly a very high mountain, which seemed impos­
sible to scale, came between them. In the dream she was
deeply surprised, frustrated, and bewildered. She awoke
wrestling with the problem and sensing something very wrong
and shady.
I asked her what the mountain signified to her, as every
dream, when interpreted properly, must coincide with the
inner awareness and feeling of the dreamer. Moreover, a
recurrent dream is very important, as it is the intuitive voice
of your subconscious saying to you, "Stop, look, and listen."
The word mountain to her meant an insuperable obstacle. I
suggested to her that she speak to her fi.ance about the dream
and gain the assurance that there was nothing hidden that
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was not revealed to her and nothing covered that was not
made known to her.
Accordingly, she fie� down to Los Angeles to see her
fiance, who met her at the airport. After a heart-to-heart talk,
he finally told her, "I am a homosexual. I wanted to marry
you so that my customers, who are very religious, would not
suspect anything."
Her dream prevented her from experiencing what even­
tually would have been a great traumatic shock. You too can
exercise the same or greater foresight through analyzing the
recurrent happenin� in your dreams.
The Reason for Her Dreams
This young lady had sensed something wrong for some
months but could not put her finger on it. She prayed
specifically, claiming that the infinite intelligence of her
subconscious mind would reveal the answer and that it would
be clearly shown to her.
The Bible says: Jn a dream, in a vision of the night,
when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the
bed; Then he openeth the ears of men, and sealeth their
. instruction (Job 33 : 1 5 , 1 6).
There Are Many Types of Dreams
There are variegated types of dreams, some due to
sexual frustration and repression , others due to mental and
emotional turmoil, bodily malfunctioning, fears and religious
taboos, reproduction and a recast of past events or of the
activities of the day.
However, there are many dreams of a recurrent nature
as well as of a precognitive significance wherein you see
events before they happen. Many times you are given detailed
instructions in the dream state as to what action to take.
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How a Dream Revealed to a Woman the Man She Married
A young business woman had a dream in which she saw
a young man-tall, fair, blue-eyed, and with blond hair. In the
dream he proposed to her and she accepted. A few days later
she met him when he entered the office where she worked to
interview one of the attorneys who employed her. He invited
her out and they shortly became fast friends. Two months
later they were married.
Dreams similar to this one are quite frequent, as it is not
at all uncommon for a man or woman to envisage ahead of
time the person the dreamer will marry. It is possible to ta.p
great intuitive powers by putting your dreams to work, as in
this instance.
The Real Cause of This Wo man 's Prescience
This young woman had been praying and affirming
every night for the ideal mate as follows : "I know that I am
one with God now. In Him I live, move, and have my being.
God is Life ; this life is the life of all men and women. We are
all sons and daughters of the one Father.
"I know and believe there is a man waiting to love and
cherish me. I know I can contribute to his happiness and
peace. He loves my ideals, and I love his ideals. He does not
want to make me over; neither do I want to make him over.
There are mutual love, freedom, and respect.
"There is one mind; I know him now in this mind. I
unite with the qualities and attributes that I admire and want
expressed by my husband. I am one with them in my mind.
We know and love each other already in Divine Mind. I see
the God in him ; he sees the God in me. Having met him
within, I must meet him in the without ; for this is the law of
my own mind.
"These words go forth and accomplish whereunto they
are sent. I know it is now done, finished, and accomplished in
God. Thank you, Father."
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These truths which she affirmed found their way into
her subconscious mind, and having identified herself with the
qualities she admired in a man, her subconscious revealed to
her the answer and a man who was the embodiment of her
ideal was automatically attracted to her.
Extrasensory Perception Is Activated in Sleep
When thou goest, it shall lead thee; when thou
sleepest, it shall keep thee; and when thou awakest,
it shall talk with thee (Proverbs 6 : 22).
In sleep your conscious mind is creatively joined to your
subconscious min d. Many good people think that sleep is
intended only for rest of the body, but nothing rests while
you are asleep, as your subconscious and all the vital
processes of your body, though slowed down considerably,
continue to function. A restorative process sets in during
sleep resulting in a feeling of well-being due to the fact that
there is a restoration of physical energy. Another reason we
go to sleep is to develop spiritually ; therefore, it is of
paramount importance that we avoid all discordant states
prior to sleep. The Divinity that shapes our ends is all wise
and has so arranged it that man is compelled to withdraw
from the world of noise, which is not conducive to spiritual
unfoldment.
Man is Divinely guided in sleep. Answers to many
problems are given him in the sleep state. Formulas, inventive
devices, poems, contents for many volumes, etc . , are also
given him in the dream state. The contents of many chapters
in chemical textbooks and in the engineering laboratories of
the world appeared in a dream, an answer to a request of the
dreamer.
How to Invent and Discover Something New
You may have a vague or general idea of what you want
to invent or discover and that is all. The technique is simple.
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Le arn all you can about it objectively and then in a passive
and relaxed state, dwell on a mental picture of that which
you wish to invent. Then turn over your mental picture to
your subconscious, asking it to complete all details, and go to
sleep. When you awaken, be sure to follow the "hunches"
you receive. It sometimes comes as an inner feeling that the
solution lies in a certain direction or in a certain group of
facts. You will find that many times the entire formula or
solution may appear in a dream. In such cases it is wise to
have a pencil near you as you sleep so tha . when you awaken
you may j ot down the impressions that come to you in your
dreams. You may be greatly surprised as to what has been
given to you in your sleeping state.
Some say, "I never dream." We all dream. If you don't
remember your dreams, suggest to your subconscious before
you drop off to sleep two words. "I remember." It knows
what you want to remember and will faithfully follow your
instructions.
It is done unto you as you believe. Your dream state
may be one of your most positive doorways to psychic
perception.
POINTS TO REMEMBER
1 . The Bible is replete with references to dreams,
visions, and revelations given to man when he is
sound asleep.
2. Dreams have been studied down through the ages,
and in almost every culture, interpreters and exposi­
tors of dreams and visions of the night have been
employed.
3. Dreams are dramatizations of your subconscious
mind and may answer your problems symbolically
or warn you of impending danger. Your future is in
your subconscious mind now, based upon your
subjective impressions, beliefs, and assumptions.
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4. You mold, fashion, and create your own future
based upon your habitual thinking and imagery.
Your subconscious mind, which never sleeps, is
constantly
reproducing your mental impressions
and acceptances.
5. Symbols are personal to each individual and may
have a different meaning when appearing in the
dreams of another. The interpretation must coin­
cide with your inner feeling. In other words, it must
make sense to you.
6. A woman seeking to know where money was
hidden requested her subconscious mind to reveal
the whereabouts of the money, and it responded in
a dream, showing the location of the secret place
and how to open the receptacle in the wall. The
subconscious knows all and sees all.
7. A young lady, sensing something wrong about her
fiance, requested her subconscious to reveal specifi­
cally the answer to her, which it did in the form of
an extraordinarily high mountain between them in
a
dream.
Intuitively ,
she
understood
what
the
mountain was (a formidable obstacle impossible to
climb over) and asked her intended about it. He
blurted out frankly that he was marrying her as a
sort of front to set at rest the suspicions of his
customers,
who
were
very
religious
in an old­
fashioned way. Her dream saved her from a great
traumatic shock. Her fiance was a homosexual.
8. There are many types of dreams. For example, if
you go to sleep very thirsty, you may find yourself
in your dreams quaffing large amounts of water.
Also,
dreams may
phobias,
fixations,
dramatize frustrations, fears,
and
complexes of all kinds.
Furthermore, there are many recurrent dreams and
precognitive dreams which reveal events before they
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happen. Many answers are given to the most per­
plexing problems in dreams and visions of the night.
9. It is not unusual to envisage your future husband or
wife in a dream. This occurs because you have been
meditating on certain qualities you desire in your
future spouse , and as soon as you have deposited
these qualities in your subconscious mind, by think­
ing of them with interest, it gives you a preview of
the man or woman who is the embodiment of your
idea.
1 0. Extrasensory perception is activated in sleep. When
you go to sleep, your conscious mind is creatively
joined to your subconscious mind; the last waking
concept you entertain prior to sleep is etched on
your subconscious mind and the latter determines
the way the answer or healing will take place.
1 1 . Many times as you think of the answer prior to
sleep you will find that the entire formula or
solution may appear in a dream. It is done unto you
as you believe.
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How Your Psychic Mind Solves
Problems Through Dream
Impressions
I have observed with the passage of years that people in
all walks of life are intensely fascinated by dreams. Our daily
newspapers, periodicals, and magazines are continuously
revealing the extensive research work being conducted by
medical doctors, psychologists, and psychiatrists on the
dream life of men and women, and they have demonstrated
that practically without exception all people dream. This
research work has demonstrated also that deprivation of
needed sleep can bring on mental aberrations and even
psychosis.
Nearly everyone today has heard of Freud, Ju ng, Adler,
and many others. These men have written and lectured
extensively on dreams, and their interpretations vary to a
great degree. From time immemorial, men and women have
been baffled and amazed by the dramatizations of the mind
called dreams. Many of these dreams are of a precognitive
nature and transcend time and space.
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The Television Set of His Mind Revealed the Answer
A young college student told me recently that he looks
at the "television" in his mind every night. He refers to his
dreams as his mental television. He had been ill for a couple
of weeks and had missed several important lectures but was
scheduled nevertheless to take an examination the day after
his return to his studies. The night prior to the examination,
he instructed his subconscious as follows: "Infinite Intelli­
gence, you are all-wise. Reveal to me everything I need to
know about this examination tomorrow morning. I accept
the answer now." He then calmly went off to the d eep of
sleep. That night he saw clearly all the questions on his
mental TV set and immediately thereafter got up and studied
the answers from his textbook. This happens frequently to
this young man, who definitely believes that the wisdom of
his subconscious mind is guiding him in all his studies.
How Her Dream Saved Her Life
While writing this chapter, I was interrupted by a long
distance call from a member of our organization who was in
London, England at that time. The following is the gist of
what she said: "I had to phone you. Last night you appeared
to me in my dream and warned me under no circumstances
to go to Nottingham by car as I had arranged. You instructed
me to go by train. I had arranged to go with my two cousins
in their car, but I cancelled the trip as you suggested. I was
shocked to learn a short time later that my two cousins had
experienced a serious accident on the road and were badly
inj ured."
Her Special Prayer Program
Prior to this young woman's departure for Europe, I had
given her the following prayer with the instructions that she
was to busy her mind with the simple truths therein con-
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tained : "I travel under God's guidance at all times. I send my
messengers called Divine love, peace, harmony, and right
action before me to make straight, beautiful, j oyous, and
happy my way, knowing that with mine eyes stayed on God,
there is no evil on my pathway.
"Whilst riding in a car, train, bus, airplane, or whatever
means of conveyance I use, God's love surrounds me. The
invisible armor of God is always around me. The spirit of
God is upon me, making all roads a highway for my God. It is
wonderful ! "
The Reason for Her Dream
Self-preservation
is
the first law of life, and your
subconscious always seeks to guard and preserve you fro m
harm of every kind. The prayer she was using was etched on
her subconscious mind, which activated its clairvoyant
powers. Undoubtedly it knew that if she had traveled by
motor car to Nottingham, she would have had an accident;
therefore, it projected a picture of her minister and drama­
tized the words of warning which her subconscious knew she
would heed and obey. My appearance in her dream was
simply a symbol of the truth of the message imparted to her
in her dream.
She Could Not Take That Motor Trip
It is important to remember that harmony and discord
do not dwell together; therefore, she could not be in a car
that collided with another, as she had claimed Divine love
and harmony go before her, making straight, j oyous, and
peaceful her j ourney.
He Said, "I Never Dream"
The subconscious mind is ever awake even during the
deepest rest of the body, and it is always active. A young
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man who has been attending my lectures imagined that his
profound sleep was dreamless, since he did not recall his
dreams on awakening. I suggested to him that on the moment
of awakening he suggest to himself, "I remember," and to his
surprise and pleasure, the dream unfolded itself completely
and even answered a problem for him which had perplexed
him for some time.
Her Dream Saved Her from a Serious Operation
•
A girl whom we shall call Louise was informed by her
foot surgeon that it was necessary to operate on her left foot
to bring about a healing, and that this would ne cessitate
having her leg in a cast as well as using crutches for two
months or more. She prayed that the infinite intelligence of
her subconscious mind would guide and direct her to come to
the right decision. She turned this request over to her
subconscious mind every night, and at the end of the fourth
night, she saw a chiropractic doctor, a friend of the family,
who in the dream state pointed to Hexagram 35 in The I
Ch ing, * which said, "Progress. " The next day she went to
visit him , and on examining the foot, he advised her that he
could bring about perfect alignment and adj ustment by
manipulation· and exercise, which she would have to practice;
and a perfect healing follo wed.
The Reason Her Subconscious Selected the He xagra m
The subconscious usually speaks and reveals answers
symbolically. Louise, having taken two classes on Th e I Ching
with the writer, became absorbed and engrossed with its
scientific and metaphysical approach to life and, undoubt­
edly, her subconscious knew she would follow the directions
of the hexagram. It spoke literally to her when it revealed the
doctor she should see for the healing of her foot.
"'The I Ching, or Book of Changes, Wilhelm/Baynes Edition, Bollingen Series XIX
(New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1950).
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An Artist Attributes Her Success to
Entering the Subjective State at Will
In visiting the home of an artist recently, I was told that
she could enter the subj ective state at will by simply closing
her eyes, immobilizing her attention, and · requesting her
subconscious to give her beautiful mental pictures in detail
and
color.
She
is
aware that her subconscious mind is
amenable to her suggestions and that her visions of beauty
are evoked by her own volition. All she has to do is to paint
the corresponding colors upon the canvas. She has discovered
the gold mine within herself and knows how to m in e the
beauties and glories within.
He Listened to the Inner Monitor and Saved His Life
On a recent visit to Honolulu, I called on an old friend
whose Hawaiian mother told him when he was very young:
"Claim every day of your life that the spell of God is always
around you and that you bear a charmed life." He p ractices
this great truth regularly and systematically, and naturally his
subconscious min d responds. It responds by corresponding.
One night, as he was within a block of his home, he
heard this inner voice of intuition say clearly to him, "Don't
enter your home. Call the police." He said the words were
clear and distinct. He phoned the police and told them
thieves were ransacking his home. (He felt this intuitively. )
The
police
burglars,
arrived
who
within
minutes
and
caught the two
were armed with pistols and were highly
dangerous. They were quickly arrested. One of the detectives
told my friend later that had he entered his home and
surprised the burglars, they would undoubtedly have shot
him, which they had done previously to others under similar
circumstances.
Our boasted God-like reason
does not have all the
answers to our daily problems; it is of the earth-earthly. Our
reasoning faculty is the noblest attribute of our conscious
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mind, but it is essentially finite and primarily for the
three-dimensional world. It is our daily guide in the walks of
our obj ective life and physical environment, but your sub­
conscious mind is one with infinite intelligence and boundless
wisdom and is untrammeled by the o bjective senses, physical
and earthly con ditions, and is unimpeded by the
processes of finite reasoning. Your subconscious imbibes the
truth and the answers to your problems from the eternal
source.
form,
POINTS TO REMEMBER
I . People in all walks of life are fascinated by dreams.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Practically every high school boy is familiar with the
names of Freud, Adler, and Jung, who have written
extensively on dreams and whose interpretations
vary greatly. Many dreams are of a precognitive
nature and are of profound importance to you.
A young college student refers to his dreams as a
"TV set" in his mind. By repeated affirmations to his
subconscious mind, he has succeeded in having it
respond to him with the questions to be propounded
to him on his examination.
A girl travelling in Europe reiterated a special prayer
of protection by sending thought messengers of
Divine love, peace, harmony, and right action before
her, and her subconscious responded by protecting
her against a possible fatal accident.
Your subconscious may project the symbolic image
of your minister to you in a dream state in order that
you may be alerted to the seriousness of the warning
when it refers to your self-preservation. The ways of
your subconscious are past finding out.
Everyone dreams. If you say, "I never dream," all
you have to do when you awaken is say to yourself
one word: " Remember," and the important dreams
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will come in perfect sequence into your conscious,
reasoning mind.
6. If you are a student of the Bible or of The I Ching, it
is quite possible that your subconscious may proj ect
a hexagram in answer to your request and by
following the diagnosis and prognosis of the hexa­
gram, you have the answer. All the allegories and
symbols of the Bible come from illumined men who
tapped the marvelous powers of their subjective
psychic minds.
7. A great artist stills her mind and immobilizes her
attention, . and in a quiet, passive, psychic, and
receptive state, requests her psychic mind to give her
visions of beauty and grandeur, which she depicts on
her canvas. She requests that these pictures be given
in detail and in color, and her subconscious responds
accordingly. She refers to her subconscious as the
gold mine within her.
8. A man in Honolulu, when a boy, was given by his
mother a benediction to affirm every day, such as:
"The spell of God is always around me and I bear a
charmed life." His subconscious spoke to him by a
clear inner voice, which said, "Don't enter your
home. Call the police." He followed the instructions
and discovered that he was saved from what the
detectives asserted would be certain death. The
wisdom of your subconscious, when called upon and
trusted, never fails.
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Extrasensory Perception
and Your Subconscious
Your subconscious mind expresses what is impressed
upon it. Many so-called strange occurrences, proj ections, and
voices are nothing but subj ective manifestations. The ghosts
we fear are those that walk the gloomy galleries of our minds.
Your Subconscious Is an Open Book
To the intuitive, psychic, or sensitive person with
clairvoyant powers, your subconscious is an open book. It is
possible for a good psychic to reveal past experiences as well
as future events, which are already present in your subcon­
scious. He could possibly be 90 percent or more accurate.
You might get a different reading from another psychic or
sensitive. This would be due to the fact that what each one
sees is filtered through his own mentality and the interpreta­
tion may be somewhat different.
The thoughts, plans, and experiences of man can also be
read by interpreting a deck of cards, by gazing into a crystal
ball, or by examining the convolutions of some sand arrange119
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ments as well as other devices. From time immemorial man
has attributed certain values to numbers, cards, and other
symbols. Since man nas assigned authority and power to
these things, they must confirm his beliefs symbolically. By
getting into a partly subj ective or passive state, it is possible
to reveal the contents of the subj ective mind of a person; The
cards, or marks on the sand, or the moving pictures in the
crystal ball serve as an alphabet of your subconscious mind,
and when pieced together by the psychic, speak in a language
understood by you.
Your Character Can Be Delineated
Perhaps you have been surprised sometimes that when
an astrologer, numerologist, or card reader read your charac­
ter, y ou agreed with the delineation and said to yourself that
it was very accurate. Remember, however, that your disposi­
tion, tendencies, predilections, early training, and indoctrina­
tion are registered and embodied in your subconscious mind.
If a person is highly intuitive, he simply tunes in with your
subconscious mind and reveals your characteristics to your
conscious mind. Actually, you had already informed the
sensitive of everything before she told you anything. All she
did was to tune in, or get in rapport with your subconscious
mind.
How She Neutralized the Negative
Prediction of an Accident
I was visited by a young woman who was emotionally
distraught over a prediction of a palmist that she would have
a serious accident on or near her 2 1 st birthday. She had
accepted· the suggestion and consequently was afraid to travel
by auto� train, or plane. She was living in perpetual fear and
had impressed her subconscious with the belief in an acci­
dent. Having actuated it with fear, it would undoubtedly
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have come to pass had she not learned how to neutralize the
accepted negative thought.
How She Praye d and Affirmed in a Definite Manner
"Wherever I go-by bus, foot, automobile, train, or
plane, or whatever means of conveyance I use-I know,
believe, and accept the truth that Divine love goes before me
making joyous, glorious, and happy my way. I know that
Infinite Intelligence guides and directs me at all times and I
am always in the sacred circle of God's eternal love. The
whole armor of God enfolds me at all times, and all my ways
and travels are controlled by God and by God alone. God
controls all travel in the heavens above and on the earth
beneath, making all my journeys a highway for God."
Her Technique for Eradicating the Negative Prediction
She affirmed these truths every morning, afternoon, and
night, knowing that these spiritual vibrations would oblit­
erate and expunge from her subconscious mind the negative
suggestion which was charged with fear. She is now 23 years
of age, and she experienced the happiest day of her life on
her 2 1 st birthday. She got married to a childhood friend, and
they are extremely happy. Paul says, Whether there be
prophecies, they shall fail. (I Cor. 1 3 : 8).
How to Learn to Shape and Mold Your Own Destiny
Your thought and feeling create your destiny. A ll
things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall
receive (Matthew 2 1 : 22). To believe something is to accept it
as true. What you decide to be true with your conscious
mind, you will experience with your subconscious mind.
Your subconscious is the major operation of your life. You
might look upon your mind somewhat like an iceberg : 90
percent Qf it is below water. Likewise, you are over 90
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percent controlled by your subconscious mind's assumptions,
convictions, and conditioning. Your subconscious beliefs
dictate, control, and manipulate all your conscious actions.
Begin now to believe, claim, feel, and know that God is
guiding you in all ways, that Divine right action governs you
at all times, that God is prospering you in all ways, and that
you are inspired from On High. As you accept these truths
with your conscious mind, your subconscious will bring all
these to pass and you will discover that all your ways are
pleasantness and all your paths are peace.
How You Can Overcome the Law of Averages
Your subconscious mind is amenable to control and
direction by your conscious mind. If you do not direct your
subconscious mind according to universal principles and
eternal verities, you will live according to the law of averages,
which means you will be subj ect to the thinking of the
masses, and this, as you know, is mostly negative. Millions of
people are living lives o f mediocrity, lack, and limitation of all
kinds because they don't direct their subconscious mind
properly. They fail to impregnate it with the thoughts of har­
mony, peace, j oy, abundance, security, and right action. Your
subconscious mind reproduces 24 hours a day your habitual
thinking. Begin now to activate your conscious mind spiritu­
ally and your subconscious will do the rest.
When your conscious mind completely accepts a crea­
tive idea and turns it over to your subconscious with
conviction, the law of your subconscious brings it to pass in
your experience. Man is mind, and evermore he takes the tool
of thought and chooses what he wills, bringing forth a
thousand j oys or a thousand ills.
How to Predict a Wonderful Life for Yourself
There is absolutely no one who can predict with
accuracy for you if you think from the standpoint of
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principle. The Divine I ntelligence knows what to do and how
to do it. It responds to your habitual thinking; therefore, you
are always predicting the future for yourself. As your
thoughts are spiritual, noble, lofty, and God-like, you see the
fallacy of fear of the unknown and belief in evil. Since you
are a scientific thinker, your prophecy for yourself is har­
mony, health, peace, and all the blessings o f life . Y ou are the
master of your fate and the captain of your soul.
Learn to walk the earth unmoved, unchallenged, and
unshaken in the conviction that there is nothing too good to
be true and nothing too wonderful to last, for the goodness,
riches, harmony, and glories of God are the same yesterday,
today, and forever.
How an Indian Boy Stopped the Flow of Blood
In a book called This Is It, published by the writer in
1 944 (now out of print for many years), I wrote about an
experience I had had about 40 years ago with an Indian boy .
He could not read o r write, y e t h e possessed the ability t o
stop the flow of arterial blood, which flows freely, b y closing
his eyes and saying, " Stop it." When he opened his eyes, the
bleeding had ceased. He believed that his prayer would
always be answered, and even though others mocked, he
never failed.
How did this so-called ignorant boy acquire this ability?
His explanation was as follows : As far back as he could
remember, his father had told him that the power to staunch
blood was a tradition in the family and was handed down
from father to son. The first-born in the family had the gift,
but none of the other members, brothers or sisters, possessed
this power.
The boy grew up in this belief and fully accepted the
fact that he could stop the flow of blood. If he saw it, he
closed his eyes to it and issued the command, which was
always obeyed. He really did not know how or why it should
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stop. He knew nothing about the subconscious mind or its
powers. The reason the blood stopped flowing was that he
believed. (He stated that while at home in Canada he
frequently was called upon to stop cases of hemorrhaging.)
Why He Had to Be Present to Heal
A very peculiar thing about this healing capacity was
that he believed that he had to be present and see the blood
flow, and so he could not heal anyone at a distance. This was
a belief implanted in his subconscious mind at an early age,
and he accepted it as a part of the tradition of his tribe and
family.
The Bible says: For as the heavens are higher than the
earth, so are my ways (answers from the subconscious) higher
than your ways. (Isaiah 5 5 : 9).
POINTS TO REMEMBER
1 . Your subconscious mind expresses on the screen of
space whatever you impress upon it, whether it be
good or bad.
2. When a good psychic, medium, or clairvoyant gets
into a passive, psychic state, he is en rapport with
your subconscious mind and can tap its secrets,
either through vivid mental pictures dramatized in
his mind's eye or by intuitive impressions. Often­
times your experiences may appear like a television
series in his mind.
3. Your dispositions, heredity, leanings, tendencies,
and temperament can be subjectively felt by a good
astrologer, numerologist, or card reader, provided
they are really intuitive and deeply psychic. This is
why your character can be delineated even by a
p erson who never heard of astrology or numer­
ology, or at least one who knows nothing about the
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subj ect.
Cards,
astrological
charts,
crystal balls,
numbers, etc . , are only symbols and are to the.
interpretation of your conscious mind a sort of
alphabet of your deeper mind.
4. You can neutralize a negative prediction by con­
templating the truths of God and thinking construc­
tively from the standpoint of principle and eternal
verities. The lower is always subj ect to the higher;
therefore, the negative, fearful thoughts are dissi­
pated and dissolved by your spiritual thoughts.
5. When you travel , you can build up an immunity to
accidents of all kinds by contemplating regularly
and systematically that Divine love goes before you
making straight, glorious, and j oyous your way.
Keep on affirming that God's love an d the whole
armor of God surround you. After a while, you will
impregnate your subconscious and become com­
pletely immunized and God-intoxicated.
6. Your thought and feeling create your destiny. What
you decide is true in your conscious mind, your
subconscious will produce. This is why you mold,
fashion, and shape your future. Your subconscious
is reproducing your habitual thinking 24 hours a
day.
7. You can rise above the law of averages, which
applies to the mass thinking of three billion people
in this world. Think on whatsoever is true, noble,
lofty, and God-like, and you become what you
contemplate.
8. The Divine Intelligence in you knows what to do
and how to do it. When you call upon it, you
receive an answer. You can predict for yourself
harmony, health, peace, joy, abundance, and secu­
rity by thinking on these truths with interest. You
will discover
that
your future is your present
thinking made manifest.
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9. A traditional belief handed down from father to
son is accepted by the impressionable mind of the
boy, and it is done unto him as he believes.
Believing that the power to stop the flow of arterial
blood is a Divine gift , the decree of the Indian boy
gets results at once. The law of life is the law of
belief.
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Psychic Thought
The Bible says : For as he thinketh in his heart (subcon­
scious mind), so is he (Proverbs 23 : 7). In the beginn ing was
the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God
(John 1 : l ). Your word is a thought expressed, and the Bible
says the word was God, meaning your thought is creative, for
there is only Creative Power-Spirit-and the function of
Spirit is thought.
It is best you have a healthy regard and respect for your
thought. The degree of your happiness, peace , prosperity,
and success is determined by your habitual thinking. Your
subconscious mind is constantly reproducing your conscious
mind's thinking and imagery . Thoughts are things, and your
t hought has its own mathematics and mechanics of
expression. When you reflect on thought, you are releasing
the creative power of God, or infinite intelligence, into
action. Emerson sai d : "Man is what he thinks all day long."
How He Proved the Power of Thought
Dr. Arthur Thomas, Minister of the Church of Religious
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Science in Reno, Nevada, gave me permission to write this
about him. Arthur had been a lieutenant in the British Navy
at one time, and more recently had been in the wholesale
business as well as in real estate in Los Angeles. About eight
years ago, however, he started attending my lectures on
Sunday mornings. He said, "I realized suddenly my thought
was the only creative power o f which I was aware, and I was
going to create what I really wanted."
Consequently , he began to affirm to himself frequently :
"I am a minister now. I am teaching the truths of life to
people." Every night he would imagine he was expatiating on
the great truths to a wonderful group of men and women in a
church. He continued to think along these lines for a month
or so when he decided to take the ministerial course at the
Institute of Religious Science, confident of the end result, as
he had already imagined and felt as true the reality of
creative thinking.
He passed all tests and examinations in Divine order and
was offered the church immediately after finishing his semi­
nary course. He is now doing exactly what he decreed
mentally. He knew that his subconscious mind would
respond mathematically and accurately according to his
thinking processes.
Get Acquainted with the Most
Powerful Force in the Universe
Thought is the most powerful force in the universe.
Your word is a thought expressed. If you are in a position of
authority, your thought or word can direct how missiles,
nuclear energy , dynamite or thermonuclear weapons are to
be used. Your thought determines how electricity is to be
used. Likewise, your thought directs the operation of your
life. Your subconscious mind could be likened to an ice­
berg-90 percent of it is below the surface. It is your
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subconscious mind that does the work according to the
orders given it by your conscious mind. What you think with
your conscious mind you produce with your subconscious.
She Discovered the Wonders of Right Thinking
Dr. Elsie McCoy of Beverly Hills, who has given me
permission to write on the following events, shows clearly
what constructive thinking according to principle will accom­
plish. She has studied extensively in Europe and Asia and in
her early days was engaged to a prominent surgeon. They
were separated by over 1 ,000 miles, however, due to their
different assignments.
Ever since she was 1 8 years of age, she has made it a
habit to affirm frequently during the day : "Only Divine right
action takes place in my life, and whatever I need to know is
revealed to me instantly by the infinite intelligence within
me." Her gradual reiteration of these truths caused them to
reach the subconscious mind, which responded accordingly.
One night while she was sound asleep, she saw and heard
clearly in a vivid dream her fiance in Chicago talking to a
nurse and, in addition, dating her for a week-end, saying to
her, "You know, I'm engaged, but she is 1 ,000 miles away
and knows nothing about it."
Dr. McCoy phoned him the next day and told him
about the silly and foolish dream she had had and laughed
about it. He was furious and accused her of having employed
detectives and of spying upon him. With that she dissolved
the engagement, and subsequent events showed the wisdom
of her subconscious in protecting her from what would
undoubtedly have been a tragic marriage.
Her right thinking activated her subconscious mind,
which revealed to her what she should know before she got
married.
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A Famous Actor Gets an Amazing Answer
Through the Subconscious of Another
Dr. Olive Gaze, an associate of mine, authorized me to
write about the remarkable way the subconscious mind of
her mother, Josephine Wyndham, responded to the questions
propounded to her by the late Norman Trevor, a distin­
guished act<;>r. Dr. Gaze said that he had a perplexing problem
and asked her mother if she could reveal the answer to him.
Josephine Wyndham was highly intuitive.
She began to think quietly and feelingly for a few
minutes, " Right answer. " Her subconscious took over and
controlled her right hand. She began to write, completing
about two pages. When she looked at it, she could not read a
word of her own writing; neither could her daughter, the
present Dr. Olive Gaze.
She gave the written material to Norman Trevor, and he
read it with ease and alacrity. It was written in Hindustani,
which he understood perfectly, having lived in India for
many years. The message was a full and complete answer to
his perplexing problem. They were all amazed at the wonders
of right thinking and the response of the subconscious mind.
_
My explanation of this is that Josephine Wyndham,
being very intuitive, got into a very relaxed, quiet, passive,
psychic, receptive state of mind, which brings about an
outcropping of the subconscious and a partial submergence
of the conscious mind. In this state, she was en rapport with
his subconscious mind, and she tapped the contents of his
subconscious, including the language of Hindustani. Since the
nature of the subconscious is compulsive, it took control of
her hand and wrote in a lan guage and in a way which would
be convincing, and which he would believe. The ways of the
subconscious are past understanding.
How She Activated Her Subconscious Mind
Mrs. Louise Barrows told me that on New Year's Eve,
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1 9 70, one of the requests she turned over to her subcon­
scious mind was that she would take a trip to Europe with
her two teenage boys in Divine order. She wrote it as follows :
"My t w o boys and I are going to Europe i n July this summer,
1 970, in Divine order. I accept this idea now in my conscious
mind, and my subconscious brings it to pass."
I n February of 1 97 0 a close relative asked her i f she
would like to take a European holiday to Switzerland,
Germany, I taly , etc., with her two sons, and she accepted ; all
expenses of the trip had already been paid to the travel
agency by her relative. Her subconscious mind knew how to
bring it to pass, and it acted on the min d of the wealthy
relative, compelling him to make the offer. I n other words,
he was the instrument through which the money and the
facilities manifested. Her spiritual thinking was a command
to her subconscious to bring her request to pass.
How to Think ( Pray) Successfully
Your thought is your prayer. When your conscious mind
deliberately accepts a creative idea or plan and turns it over
to the subconscious with confidence, the intelligence of your
subconscious brings it to pass in your experience. Your
subconscious mind acts as a law and produces with mathe­
matical exactitude the equivalent of your idea in your
experience.
Right Thinking Enables Her to Lose Forty Pounds
A young lady wrote me from Wichita, Kansas, saying
she had been reading The Po wer of Yo ur Subconscious
Mind* and decided to follow her doctor's instructions and
lose 40 pounds. She stated that she had gone on many diet
regimens, and took o ff weight only to put it on again.
*Dr. Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1 963).
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However, following the advice given in the book, prior to
sleep every night she began to think right and to convey the
right command to her subconscious mind. Her right thinking
was as follows: "I weigh 1 1 8 pounds in Divine order. The
infinite intelligence of my subconscious mind accepts this
request and acts accordingly . I sleep in peace and Divine right
action governs me."
After a week or so, she discovered that she had lost all
desire for the amylaceous foods an d fatty substances which
she previously craved and thus had no trouble losing the
required weight. Before this, she had been forcing herself to
follow the strict diet, while at the same time lusting after ice
cream, apple pie, and assorted sweets.
Anyone who says, "I can't lose weight" is actually
saying, "I don't want to lose weight." All you have to do is
to come to a clear-cut decision in your conscious mind, and
your subconscious will do the rest. You will discover you will
lose
all
desire
for those foods that contribute to your
obesity.
You Are the Only Thinker in Your Universe
You have the privilege of selecting any constructive
idea; nourish it and sustain it, knowing that there is a
response from your subconscious mind. The wisdom of your
subconscious will work out the idea which you have selected
in its own unique way.
The Power of Thought on Your Body
You have observed the effect of fear on your pulse,
heart beat, etc. Shame brings a flush to the cheek and anger
and rage blanch the skin. The hair of many young men has
turned white when they were exposed to a harrowing experi­
ence. News of a sudden death of a loved one has brought on
psychological blindness and deafness. Worry interferes with
digestion and may bring on ulcers, colitis, and other mal-
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functions and diseases. Our newspapers and periodicals are
pointing out daily the ravages of hate, envy, j ealousy, and
strain on the body, such as anemia, high blood pressure,
cardiac disorders, and even cancer.
Begin to Use the Creative Power Wisely
Your consciousness is the only creative power in your
life. Your consciousness represents what you think, feel,
believe, and give mental consent to. This is the cause of all
your experiences, conditions, circumstances, and events in
your life. Do not make the external world a cause ; it is an
effect.
Refuse definitely, positively, and absolutely to give
power to externals, such as the winds, waves, weather, sun,
snow, stars, or any created thing. The scientific thinker never
makes an effect a cause ; therefore, he is no longer hypnotized
by the world and its beliefs. The creator is greater than his
creation. The thinker is greater than his thoughts, and the
artist is greater than his art. Think good and good follows ;
think negatively and negation follows.
He Asked the Real Meaning of Thought and Thinking
At a lecture I held last year in Las Vegas, a man asked
the question: "What is thought and thinking, and what is new
about it? " I explained to him that thinking means comparing;
i.e., comparing one thing with another, one proposition with
another. If the mental instrument can say only "yes," com­
parison is not possible. You have a choice between two
things-to one of them you say "yes,'' to the other "no."
When you ask "why?" you are seeking a reason. All reasoning
involves selecting this and rejecting that, and it would be
impossible to select or rej ect unless your mind had the power
of affirmation and rej ection.
Most people don't really think. We are thinking when
our minds are dedicated to the eternal truths o f God, when
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we rej ect all fear and contemplate the reality of our desire,
knowing there is an Almighty Power which responds to our
thinking and which will bring it to pass. You are truly
thinking when you reason things out in your mind, rejecting
all negative concepts as unfit for the house of God, and
feasting on the reality of the Divine solution, while knowing
that a subjective wisdom responds to your creative thought
when you are free from fear.
This seemed to satisfy him , and he said, "I never knew
what thought was until now." Man is mind, and evermore he
takes the tool of thought and brings forth a thousand joys or
a thousand ills.
POINTS TO REMEMBER
l . Your psychic thought is creative. When you think
the thought, you release the latent power within
you. Every thought tends to manifest itself.
2. By reiterating a certain thought pattern in your
conscious mind, your subconscious receives it and
decides in its own way how to bring it to pass. Your
mental image is a thought-pattern in your mind, and
by regularly and systematically imagining yourself
doing what you love to do, your subconscious
develops that mental image in the dark house of your
mind and brings it to pass.
3. Your thought is the most powerful force in the
world. A word is a thought expressed. Therefore,
man can determine how atomic, nuclear, and electri­
cal energies and powers are to be used. Man is the
master, and is in control. He must decide how he is
going to use the powers available to him.
4 . When you affirm, "Whatever I need to know is
revealed to me instantly ," your psychic mind will
protect
you
from
making errors or mistakes. A
young doctor who impregnated her subconscious
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mind with this truth saw in a dream her fiance's
relationship with another woman. She cancelled the
proposed marriage and discovered she was Divinely
protected from making a tragic mistake.
5. There are many gifted people called psychic auto­
matists.
6. A mother of two teenage boys wrote out a request
on New Year's Eve that psychic intelligence would
reveal the perfect way for her to take her two sons to
Europe during July. A wealthy relative voluntarily
paid all expenses for an extended vacation for all of
them in Europe.
7. Your thoughts of fear, worry, anxiety and anger are
quite noticeable in your face, eyes, pulse, blood
pressure, or the blanching of your skin. Worry, hate,
jealousy, and hostility are behind a host of maladies.
Your psychic thought is creative.
8. Consciousness is the only creative power. Your con­
sciousness means the way you think, feel, believe,
and what you give mental consent to. Think good
and good follows through your psychic perception.
9. To think is to compare, i . e . , to choose one thing in
preference to another. Your mental instrument can
say "yes" or "no. " Your mind has the power of
affirmation and rej ection. You are truly thinking
when your thoughts conform to the eternal verities.
Emerson said, " You are what you think all day
long."
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A certain woman (whom we shall call Mrs. Jones) was
before a judge who was about to render a verdict in her case.
She was very nervous, distraught, and worried. Her �tep­
daughters were contesting their father's will and were very
bitter toward her. She also said that the judge didn't seem
very sympathetic, even though her husband had willed only
50 percent of his estate to her.
At my suggestion, she followed this technique of
prayer: "I know that Infinite Intelligence guides and directs
my attorney, the judge, and all concerned in this case. I
realize and know that the Divine law of harmony reigns
supreme and that which was bequeathed to me comes to me
in Divine law and order." She knew that by practicing these
truths, she would activate these principles of truth resident in
her subconscious psychic mind.
Her Visualization Technique
She said to herself, "The architect visualizes the sky­
scraper; he sees it as he want it to be. His mental image
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becomes a mold from which the building will finally
emerge." Accordingly, she affirmed : "The j udge is absolutely
honest. God thinks, speaks, and acts through him, and his
decision is based on Divine right action ." She pictured the
judge announcing his decision, saying: "My decision is just
and eminently fair and is in accordance with the provision of
the will and the intent of the deceased."
She visualized the j udge, saying this over and over again
until her mind became saturated with the truth of what she
affirmed. Undoubtedly this same truth was resurrected in the
subconscious mind of the judge, who made a decision exactly
as she had decreed, which was according to the provisions of
her husband's will and his true intention. By her recognition
and appreciation of the principle of right action, the avarice
and envy of her stepdaughters were brought to naught. You
too can help solve your problems satisfactorily by proceeding
as Mrs. Jones did.
Ho w Ex trasensory Perception
Cured His Abnormal J e alo usy
A salesman confided to me that he was never certain
about his wife, Mary, when he was away . She was extremely
attractive, young, and beautiful. During his frequent trips to
many cities in the territory allocated to him, he lived in
constant fear that he would lose her or that she would
become enamored with some young man in the neighbor­
hood. He would phone her four or five times a day , which
disturbed her, as she knew the reasons for his frequent phone
calls.
I explained to him that basically and fundamentally his
jealousy was due to a sense of insecurity and a feeling of
inferiority within himself.
The Healing Technique He Employed
When away from home, he would still his mind two or
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three times a day, get quiet inside, and relax his body. Then
he would imagine Mary right in front of him, and he would
affirm : "Divine love unites us," and "I love you sincerely ."
She would reply, "I love you-you are the only one. " He
would hear her say these words to him regularly and
feelingly. Whenever the urge came to him to call in order to
check up on her, he would silently affirm : "Divine love
unites us. I love her and she loves me, also."
He felt the reality of these words in his heart, and as he
drove along the road he could hear Mary's voice, the texture
and tone of which he knew very well, ring in his ears, saying
"I love you." After a week or so of practicing this technique,
he discovered that love really casts out fear and j ealousy.
How Tom Overcame His Nightmares
A man (we shall call him Tom) phoned me relative to the
frightful nightmares he had experienced every night for over
a week. He wanted to know how to overcome this condition.
He said that he knew the agent in the dream is always the
dreamer himself, be he the attacker or the attacked. He was
being tom to pieces by fierce wild animals in his sleep, and at
other times in the night, viciously beaten by thugs and left
for dead.
I explained to him that undoubtedly his nightmares
were punishments for his feeling of guilt, and dramatized in
symbolic form by ferocious beasts clawing and attacking him.
He admitted that being pursue d, overpowered, and destroyed
by animals and thugs and his awakening perspiring with fear
and foreboding of some imminent disaster was due to his
aggressive hatred toward a woman with whom he was in love
and who had jilted him for another man.
His nightmares were really the fires of hatred, hostility,
and suppressed rage and could be called the eruption of his
conscience. His insight and perception into his own condition
transcended his five-sense knowledge .
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The Technique and Formula He Used
to Banish His Frightful Nightmares
At my suggestion, he decided to lie flat on his back
prior to sleep and visualize his former girl friend and her
husband as radiant, happy, joyous, and free. He conscioµsly
projected love, harmony, peace, and goodwill to both of
them, saying out lou d : "These God-like vibrations go forth
from me now and are resurrected subjectively in the hearts of
both of them. There is no time or space in the subconscious
mind, and I know that what I really feel and am broadcasting
now is lodged deeply in the hearts of my former girl friend
and her husband. I sleep in peace and God gives me joy and
happiness, and God's love fills my soul."
He practice d this technique for about ten minutes, and
that night he slept peacefully and has had no trouble since
then. His subconscious was controlled by his conscious mind.
Feeding his subconscious with life-giving patterns, he wiped
out the negative patterns. Love casts out fear.
Don't Ignore Your Dreams
Everyone dreams, though many people-usually the
happy, j oyous, and free-are unaware that they do dream.
Many wish to ignore their dreams because their dreams are
actually revealing subconscious states of mind which they
don't want to be reminded of; therefore, they tend to
suppress their hostilities and resentments. In sleep, the
subconscious takes over and dramatizes its contents and
protests to the conscious, sleeping mind that it should stop
polluting its subconscious with negative and destructive
mental poisons.
It is also true that while we sleep our dreams help us
considerably in eradicating excess tension and anxiety. This
happens whether we recall the fact we were dreaming or not.
The subconscious is all-wise and it works off our pent-up
emotions during sleep.
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Nightmares and insomnia are amenable to control by
the illumined conscious mind. Fill your conscious mind with
the truths of God and reiterate these truths prior to sleep.
Since your subconscious mind is subject to the conscious
mind, you will sleep in peace and wake in joy.
How Ann's Extrasensory Powers Harmonized
the Situation with Her Associate
A young supervisor (we shall call her Ann) was working
in an office employing 20 girls. One of the girls, whom we
shall call Lucy, was extremely hostile to her and in many
subtle ways placed difficulties in her path. Furthermore,
Lucy accused Ann of discriminating against her, pointing out
that she was entitled to promotions and that her talents were
not appreciated nor given recognition. Ann did not want to
recommend her dismissal, as Lucy, though very difficult to
handle, was capable in her work. Moreover, Ann didn't want
her to begin to complain to the management that she was
being discriminated against when, in reality, she was not.
How Ann Overcame the Hurdle
At my suggestion, one morning Ann sat down in her
office, quieted her mind, and read the 9 1 st Psalm while
affirming deeply and lovingly : "I am filled with the free­
flowing love of God. My whole being is saturated with Divine
love. I fully and freely forgive Lucy. The Spirit in me talks to
the Spirit in Lucy and there are harmony, love, and under­
standing between us. Whenever I see Lucy, or whenever she
speaks to me, I surround her with a circle of light and love.
Ann practiced this technique during the day for about
four days, and at the end of this time Lucy apologized to her
for the way she was acting and promised complete coopera­
tion in
the
future.
Ann's
benediction
and
prayers had
actually engulfed the soul of Lucy and they became great
friends. What Ann projected or "broadcast" came back to
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her As you send out love and goodwill, so will it return to
you. Action and reaction are equal.
.
How a .Young Lady Used Extrasensory Perception
to Find Her Long-Lost Father
A few weeks ago I visited Ulu Maui Village in Hawaii.
Here the villagers stage lively demonstrations of poi­
pounding, old time hulas, lei-making, quilt weaving, and
other traditional rites, concepts, and arts. This village offers
intriguing displays of ancient tapas, Hawaiian and Pacific
artifacts. It is said: "You haven't seen Hawaii until you've
seen Ulu Maui." I had a superb Hawaiian luncheon served
with exotic South Seas concoctions. Chatting with a young
lady at the next table, I told her I was writing a book entitled
Let Psychic Perception Work for .You and was looking for
some material in Hawaii, the island of mystery , and from the
Kahuna (native priest).
She said, "You can use my story ; it is very vivid and
real. " The following is the gist of her experience. Her father
had deserted her mother when my luncheon companion was
two years old ; it seems they had quarreled a lot. The father
had given the mother $25 ,000 for the care and education of
the child. When the child had &rown up and graduated from
the University of Hawaii , where she majored in psychology,
she decided to use the powers of her mind to locate her
father, whom she had an intense desire to meet and to know.
How Her Awareness of Her Astral Body Helped Her
She said, "I know I possess a fourth-dimensional, subtle
body, which some call the astral body , as I have found myself
out of my body frequently and on foreign shores." She
pointed out that her astral body fitted exactly the contours
of her physical body.
One night prior to sleep she instructed her subconscious
mind in the following manner: "You know where my father
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is. I know you can make me appear before him in person,
whether he is asleep or awake, wherever he is. Your guiding
intelligence will now find him , as you are my inner radar.
There is a love bond between my father and myself. He
hungers to meet me and I hunger to meet him. This is my
command to you, and now I go to sleep in peace." These
words are the essence of the instructions she communicated
to her subconscious mind.
"I mmediately after going to sleep, I found myself in a
hotel room in Sydney, Australia ," she said. "I had a body
exactly the same as the one lying in bed in Honolulu, and
there I saw my father putting on his coat getting ready to go
to work. He seemed startled and frightened, and I said to
him, 'Dad, I'm Lisa (not her real name) , your daughter. I love
you. Come back to us.' He seemed speechless and dumb­
founded, and all I remember is that he said, 'I will.' Then I
found myself back in my three-dimensional body on the bed
in my home in Honolulu."
The Interesting Sequel to Her Astral Travel
Lisa had a perfect memory of what had happened while
she was asleep. When she awakened in the morning, she told
her mother where her father was staying in Sydney. She
wrote to him there and told him about her astral visit, and
she received a reply by airmail, saying he had experienced an
apparition of a beautiful young lady who appeared to him in
his bedroom saying she was his daughter, and he said that he
was coming back to Honolulu. They had a j oyous reunion
and her mother welcomed her long-lost husband with open
arms.
How She Functioned Outside Her Body
Prior to sleep, Lisa decreed to her subconscious that the
guiding principle in her subconscious mind would lead her to
her father, and it projected her personality, which was
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immediately presented to her father in her astral body. This
happened almost instantaneously , inasmuch as she was asleep
by the clock for less than five minutes. She had full use of
her faculties; she was consciously aware of the hotel, its
address, the furniture in the room where her father was ; and
she was able to communicate to him and move ponderable.
objects. Also, she had visual, auditory, and tactile capacities.
In other words, she proved to herself that she was not
just a body, but a mental and psychic being capable of living,
acting, and traveling independent of her physical organism.
You will have bodies to infinity. Actually, you will never be
without a body, as you are on an endless journey which
knows no end.
Extrasensory Perception and the Man
from Calcutta Who Saved His Daughter's Life
In Honolulu, where I am writing this chapter, I had a
most interesting conversation with an old friend whom I had
known previously in India. I shall call him Harry . He has been
practicing traveling clairvoyance, or astral excursions, for
many years. His daughter is studying in Honolulu and had
been very ill, actually at the point o f death. A cable was sent
to him in Calcutta, and the moment he received it, he
adopted a Yoga posture, closing his eyes, and got into a
passive, quiet, receptive state of mind. He visualized his
fourth-dimensional, or astral body emerging through his head
with all his faculties, and he decreed firmly , knowingly, and
with deep conviction : "I want to appear instantly to my
daughter and minister to her." He repeated this command
about six times, then dropped off into a profound slumber.
Immediately he found himself at his daughter's bedside.
·
She was asleep but awakened immediately and exclaimed to
hi m : " Dad, why didn't you tell me you were coming? Help
me." He placed his hands upon her and chanted certain
religious phrases and told her, "You will arise in a few hours
and be well."
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She had an instantaneous healing. Her fever immediately
subsided and she shouted to the nurse, "I am healed! I am
well! My father was here and he healed me ! " The nurse
thought she was raving, but the resident physician confirmed
the silent, inner knowing of her soul that she was, indeed,
perfectly well. However, both laughed at her story of a
visitation by her father from India.
The Nurse Heard Nobody in the Room
The nurse was puzzled and perplexed, and said to the
daughter: "How could your father or anybody else get in
from downstairs through closed doors? I saw no one enter
your room."
The daughter explained to the nurse, "Oh, my father
·visited me in his astral body and laid his hands on me and
prayed with me."
The nurse said, "I don't believe in ghosts, apparitions or
voodoo." The girl realized that further explanations would be
useless.
Harry said that he was perfectly conscious all the time.
Considering the distance between Calcutta and Honolulu and
the time difference, he discovered that he had been absent
from his physical body just ten minutes in all.
Harry is a medical doctor and has tremendous faith in
spiritual healing and is very familiar with the many schools of
healing. He realized his presence gave a tremendous trans­
fusion of faith, confidence, and courage to his daughter,
which impregnated her subconscious mind, and according to
his belief and that of his daughter, it was done unto her.
The Bible says, If thou canst believe1 all things are
possible to him that believeth (Mark 9 : 23).
POINTS TO REMEMBER
1 . When involved in a court case, know that Infinite
Intelligence guides and directs your attorney, the
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2.
3.
4.
5.
judge and all concerned in the case. Realize that the
Divine law of harmony prevails, and that you will
experience j ustice and right action in the decision.
A salesman, who is suffering from abnormal j ealousy
and who annoys his wife by checking up on her five
or six times a day on long distance telephone calls,
heals himself by frequent silent periods during the
day when he is away from home. Making a habit of
this mental picture, he succeeded in obliterating the
j ealous pattern in his subconscious based on his sense
of insecurity and fear.
Nightmares are usually due to a sense of guilt
wherein you feel you should be punished. They are
based upon the fires of resentment, hostility, or
suppressed rage. Your subconscious mind is amenable
to control by your conscious mind; therefore, all you
have to do is to forgive yourself as well as others and
feed your subconscious mind prior to sleep with
life-giving patterns of love and harmony , and you
will sleep in peace and wake in j oy.
Everyone dreams. Your dreams are a dramatization
of your subconscious mind's contents-a sort of
mental television program. Your dreams also aid you
in releasing excess tensions and anxieties. Every
night, on retiring, fill your conscious mind with the
truths of God and you will crowd out of your
subconscious everything unlike God.
When you are having trouble with an associate who is
difficult and hostile, the first thing to do is to quiet
your mind periodically and affirm boldly : "The
free-flowing love of God saturates my whole being.
The Spirit in me salutes the Spirit in
and
there are love, peace, and understanding between
us." Whenever you meet or speak to the other,
silently affirm, "I surround you with a circle of love
and light."
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6. A girl who found herself out of her body frequently
commanded her subconscious prior to sleep to find
her father, who deserted her mother when the
daughter was two years old. Her subconscious
obeyed her command of conviction, and she found
herself proj ected as an astral body into a hotel room
in Australia. There she spoke to her father and asked
him to return, telling him. who she was. He looked
upon her visit as an apparition, but subsequently
realized that it was really his daughter. He eventually
returned to a j oyous reunion with his wife and
daughter.
7. You possess a subtle body now. Some call it the
astral body, which is an exact duplicate of your
present body, but it operates at a much higher
frequency and can enter closed doors and collapse
time and space. It is the same as your present
body-the only difference is that your astral body
oscillates at a higher psychic frequency.
8. Many people become adept at traveling outside their
bodies. They possess all their faculties and are able to
see, hear, feel, and converse with others as well as
describe what they see. They can even move ponder­
able objects. They can change their directions by
commands to their subconscious mind, which obeys.
9. A father living in India, on hearing of his daughter's
dangerous illness, quiets his mind and issues a
psychic command to his subconscious to proj ect him
to his daughter's bedside in Honolulu . He places his
hands upon her and prays, and she has a remarkable
recovery. He is tangible and real and able to enter the
hospital and her room even through closed doors.
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How to Increase Your W�th
with Psychic Perception
To become aware of the law of plenty, all you have to
do is to observe the prodigality or generosity of nature. You
will be forced to come to the conclusion that nature is lavish,
extravagant, and bountiful. Notice how, for example, when
you put seeds into the ground, they come forth ten-fold, a
hundred-fold and a thousand-fold. When you gaze at an acorn
you are looking at a potential forest.
How a Businessman Realized There Was Unlimited
Wealth for Him
Recently, when I was talking with a businessman in
Hilo, which is on the west coast of the big island of Hawaii,
he told me about a most interesting experience he had had
which helped him overcome his poverty complex. One day
when he was thinking about how he could pay the bills which
had accumulated in his store, he noticed the rain coming
down in torrents, and he said to himself: "God's riches are
flowing to me like the rain falls from the heavens." He kept
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this picture in his mind for about a half an hour. Suddenly he
had a strange feeling that the atmosphere all around him was
filled with God's riches-spiritual, mental, and material-and
a marvelous sense of peace came to him.
From that day on, people in steadily increasing numbers
came into his store and his sales increased to such a
proportion that he had to hire two extra salesladies. What
actually happened was that as he meditated on and pictured
God's wealth flowing to him like rain, he conveyed this idea
to his subconscious mind, which responded accordingly and
brought it to pass in a wonderful way . He said to me that he
has never worried about money since that day, as it is
circulating freely in his experience. He has a card affixed to
his desk, which says: I will rain bread from heaven for you
(Exodus 1 6 : 4).
Your Invisible Means of Support
A young millionnaire who frequently comes to my
lectures said to me the other day that the trouble with most
of the men associated with him is that they have no invisible
means of support and that they have no idea of how to tap
the treasure house of their subconscious, where infinite
riches* are ; therefore, the law of plenty cannot operate in
their lives. There is an inexhaustible reservoir within you in
which everything has its origin and source. You can tap it and
grow rich.
She Based Her Success on Service
A young woman who is extraordinarily successful in the
beauty parlor business told me that she opened her shop on
what she called a shoestring, but her main idea was to give
the best service possible to her clients while at the same time
*Dr. Joseph Murphy, Your Infinite Power to be Rich, (West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker
Publishing Company, Inc., 1 966).
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possessing a sense of unity with the Divine Source in her
inner life. She realized that hard work in her business was not
enough-that she would have to work also in the inner
recesses of her mind.
Her constant prayer formula was the reiteration and
understanding of the following great truths: Thou wilt keep
him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee (Isaiah
26 : 3). In quietness and in confiden ce shall be your strength
(Isaiah 3 0 : 1 5 ). Rest in the Lord, and wait patien tly for him
(Psalm 37 : 7 ). Commit thy way un to the Lord; trust also in
him; and he shall bring it to pass (Psalm 3 7 : 5).
As she mentally focused o n these eternal verities, she
knew they would be integrated into her character and
mentality and also be expressed in her work. She has been
carried forward on the crest of the wave of prosperity,
victory, and achievement.
The Law of Being Is Abundance
As you look around you, it is apparent that the infinite
treasure house within you creates profusion in all nature. The
law of life is plenty-not lack. It is necessary for you to get
on a mental and spiritual basis, and then you will be able to
transform your life and thus experience the riches of the
infinite in your mind , body and business life.
Remember, your thought takes form in the inner realm
of your mind and may be seen by a sensitive or psychic
person. Poverty thoughts will cause you to experience pov­
erty and stricken conditions. You will find people, perhaps
living on the same block or working beside you in an office
or factory, who are thinking thoughts of riches, plenty,
security, and the life more abundant. They seem to become
surrounded with everything they need. The secret of their
success is to substitute for the thoughts of lack and limitation
the habitual thoughts of the infinite and inexhaustible supply
of God's riches. Change your thoughts and keep them
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changed. As you steer and direct your thoughts on the riches
of the infinite flowing into your experience, a fantastic and
tremendous difference will take place in your life.
How He Overcame His Arrearage in
Rent and Overdrawn Bank Account
Some months ago, I gave a lecture in Laguna Beach,
California, on the law of opulence. After the lecture a man
came to see me at the hotel. He was deeply perturbed. His
problem was that he had to mortgage his life policy and
could not pay his bills. The rent was three months past due
and his purse was empty. His question was : How can I trust
in the Infinite Source when I am now broke?"
I replied that there is an answer to every question and
that there is a solution to every problem, and the answer to
his problem was to follow the Biblical injunction : Seek ye
first the Kingdo m of God, and His righ teousness; and .all
these things shall be a dded unto you (Matthew 6 : 33). This
means that all the powers of the God-presence are within
you. You must claim what you want and feel the reality of it,
and your subconscious mind will honor, validate and mani­
fest that which you impress upon it.
I explained to him that wealth, health, peace of mind,
success, etc. were all simply states of mind and that one idea,
such as a new invention, a book, a play, a new technique in
business, or a promotional concept to benefit and bless
mankind , could be worth a million dollars or more. Right­
eousness simply means the right use of the law, such as right
thinking, right feeling, and right action. You wish for all men
all the blessin� of life. You perceive abundance in all thin�
for all people.
He began to see that a change of view could solve his
problem and redeem him. I gave him a very simple way to
disperse his dark and depressing mood by pointing out to him
the - tremendous power of words in activating the latent
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powers within him. The following words were to be affirmed
out
loud for one-half hour three times a day :
"Wealth
success, victory, j oy." He put all the feeling and enthusiasm
at his command into these words, and gradually he became
lifted up ; he found that these words, sincerely uttered,
activated and made alive the real powers and potencies of his
subconscious mind.
As he anchored his mind on these realities and princi­
ples, the conditions and circumstances corresponding to their
nature became visible on the screen of space. A few weeks
went by and nothing particular happened other than that
some close friends advanced him a few thousand dollars to
tide him over; however, the solution came about a month
later, when he discovered that one of his friends who had
helped him out financially, as mentioned above, had also
given him a ticket on the Irish Sweepstakes. To his amaze­
ment, his horse won, and he received a large sum of money
which solved all his financial problems. His subconscious
knew the answer. He trusted the inner powers, and according
to his belief it was done unto him.
A Fruitful Technique for Wealth and Success
Many people say, "If I affirm, 'I am successful' when I
am a failure, or if I say to myself, 'I am wealthy' when I am
broke, I am lying to myself, and I seem to get worse and
experience the opposite of what I affirm or claim to be true. "
The reason for this i s that the belief i n lack, failure, and
limitation is dominant in their subconscious mind, and every
time they affirm wealth, they resurrect the thought of lack.
They fail to understand how to tap the riches of the Infinite,
because they don't know the workin� of their mind.
For those who honestly feel that lack of understanding,
I recommend a very simple procedure by asking them a
simple q9estion : Do you believe in wealth, that bountiful
wealth exists, and that the Infinite cannot fail? It is all-
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powerful and there is nothing to oppose it. Therefore, success
is a principle of life. For example, walk down the street or go
out into the country. All you see is wealth, created either by
man or by God. All created things were ideas, either in the
mind of inan or of God. I suggest, therefore, two words,
which are not mere abstractions, but words (thoughts
expressed) which have tremendous power, as they relate to
the inexhaustible power and wisdom of the Infinite. By
repeating the two words slowly, quietly, feelingly, and
knowingly-"success, wealth" -and doing this over and over
again many times a day, you get your ego out of the way,
and there is no contradiction in your conscious or subcon­
scious mind, as you agree there are such things as wealth and
success.
When you use certain constructive words-words which
stand for and represent eternal truths of God-then your
mind becomes anchored on the only Presence, Cause, Power,
and Substance, and results follow. Use these words regularly,
systematically, and repetitiously, and you will discover you
are on a sound, scientific path. Remember, it is your attitude
of mind that is to be overcome, not your circumstances.
When you possess the right mental attitude, your conditions,
experiences, and financial status will automatically right
themselves.
A Businessman Discovered Why Wealth Flowed
from Him Instead of to Him
A businessman complained to me that he worked very
hard, and spent long hours in his store, yet one block away
another man in exactly the same business and with a much
smaller store deposited in the bank three times as much as he
did every week. He was constantly comparing his meager
results with those of another and had become envious and
also somewhat resentful.
I explained to him that by entertaining envious thoughts
he was actually impoverishing himself, and that this was one
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of the worst possible attitudes to hold, because his negative
thinking and his feeling of inferiority were definitely block­
ing his expansion and growth along all lines. So long as he
retained this mental posture, wealth would flow from him
instead of to him.
The remedy was very simple. All he had to do was to
bless and sincerely wish greater prosperity and success for his
so-called competitor whose apparently more successfu l and
prosperous state had incited him to envy. Accordingly, he
prayed as follows:
"I recognize God as my instant and
everlasting supply. God's wealth flows to me in avalanches of
abundance, and I am Divinely directed to give better service
every day. I know, believe, and rejoice that God is prospering
the businessman in the next block, and I sincerely wish for
him all the blessings of life."
When any thought of envy toward the other business­
man came to his mind, he would affirm: "God is prospering
you." After a while the envious thoughts lost all momentum,
and he too began to prosper-and beyond his fondest dreams
at that. This man found that the cause of his financial lack
and straitened circumstances had been due to his state of
mind. By blessing those whose prosperity and success annoy
us
or excite our envy or jealousy, and by wishing that they
become even more affluent and successful in every way, we
heal our own minds and open the door to the riches of the
Infinite.
Out of the abundance of your heart, you can pour out
the gifts of love, light, joy, success, and goodwill to all; and
you will discover that by blessing others, you too are blessed,
and all sense of envy, inferiority, and poverty is overcome.
The Magic Key to Wealth and Promotion in Life
In consultation periods over many years, I have discov­
ered that the reason many men and women do not get
promoted and make more money in their profession or
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business is that they were in the habit of condemning those
who went up the ladder of life, while stating that others in
their organization were cold, callous, ruthless, and that some
even had a "racket." They failed to perceive that there is
nothing more destructive and more calculated to deprive
them of promotion and advancement than condemning and
judging harshly those who succeeded, and who received
increments and advancement in their work. Actually, I found
out that they let wealth, honor, and riches slip through their
fingers and blocked and impeded their own progress spirit·
ually, mentally, and financially.
The remedy in all cases was to teach them to wish
sincerely for all those around them as well as all people
everywhere that they be blessed and prospered in countless
ways, and by rejoicing in thei,r advancement and material
progress. The result inevitably is that they are delivered from
the mental block of envy, covetousness, and resentment.
They then become dispensers of God's bounty to all. By
praying in the above manner, unhappy people came back to
their Divine center and they discovered that the Infinite
Being was pouring out blessing and benedictions upon them·
selves and for all those for whom they prayed. By wishjng
others well, you are blessing yourself. Remember the old
Hindu maxim: "The slip that comes home to my brother
comes home to me."
POINTS TO REMEMBER
1 . To become aware of the law of plenty, all you have
to do is to observe the prodigality o f nature.
Nature is lavish, extravagant, and bountiful. Con·
template the abundance of nature and you will
experience the life more abundant.
2. A technique to attract riches into your life is to
affirm frequently : "God's riches are flowing to me
like the rain falls from the heavens." Repeat it
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frequently and you will succeed in impregnating
your subconscious mind with the idea of riches.
3. The trouble with most people· who don't have all
the money they need to accomplish their life
objectives is that they lack the invisible psychic
means of support. They fail to see that the treasure
house of eternity is within them.
4. A beauty parlor operator discovered that the key to
her outstanding success was her intense desire to
give greater and better service to her clients. She did
her very best externally, but she also worked
internally by turning to the Infinite within her,
claiming peace, harmony, power and guidance. She
realized that the inside governs the outside. The
inner world of the mind and the outer objective
activity must work together in unison and in con­
cord.
5 . The law of life is plenty, not lack. Your thoughts
have form, shape, and substance in your mind.
When nourished and sustained by faith, they come
forth as form and expression on the screen of space.
Your thoughts of opulence, harmony, security , and
the riches of the Infinite will manifest in your life
provided you change your thoughts and keep them
changed.
6. There is a way out of every problem and an answer
to every question. Whatever you seek in life, you
must go within the psychic recesses of your mind
and there claim that you now are what you long to
be, that you now possess what you long to possess,
and your subconscious mind will reproduce what
you claim and feel to be true. The Kingdom of God
is the kingdom of Infinite Intelligence and Infinite
Power within you, The riches of the Infinite are
within you, and you must claim your inheritance
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which was given to you from the foundation of
time.
7. Repeating frequently the words "wealth, success,
victory, joy" will activate these powers and qual­
ities within you, and your subconscious will release
all these potentialities within you, and wonders will
happen in your life. The ways of your subconscious
are past finding out, and the money you seek may
come from a bequest, a sweepstake ticket, or an
idea may well up from your subconscious worth a
fortune.
8. To obviate a quarrel in your mind, instead of
saying, "I am wealthy, I am successful, I am
happy," etc. , use the words (thoughts expressed)
"wealth, success, happiness." These words, which
are thoughts expressed, have their own mechanics
and mathematics within them, and by repetition
activate these dormant powers in your subcon­
scious, and you will be compelled to express these
characteristics and qualities, as the law of your
subconseious is compulsion.
9. Envy, covetousness, and resentment impoverish
you, as these are thoughts of lack and limitation
and are very negative. You are the thinker in your
universe ; therefore, you attract more lack, limita­
tion, and misery. Radiate thoughts of love, peace,
prosperity and success to all those around you,
knowing what you wish for others you are wishing
for yourself. Love is the fulfilling of the law of .
success, prosperity and abundance. Love is goodwill
to all.
1 0. Recognize God as your instant and everlasting sup­
ply, and claim that God's wealth is forever circulating
in your life, and wealth will flow to you in avalanches
of abundance.
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1 1 . Criticism, condemnation, and jealousy of others
because they have gone up the ladder of success and
fame will block your good and inhibit the flow of
God's riches to you. Pour out the benediction and
the blessing of the Infinite on all those who excite
your envy, and you will open the door for countless
blessings fo r yourself.
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How Your Perception
Brings You Wonders
of Disciplined Imagination
The following are perceptive statements on the subject
of imagination made by many great thinkers:
We are all of us imaginative in some form or
other, for images are the brood of desire.
George Eliot
Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon
The soul without imagination is what an
observatory would be without a telescope.
H. W. Beecher
Thought convinces; feeling persuades. If
imagination furnishes the fact with wings, feeling is
the great, stout muscle which flies them, and lifts
them from the ground. Thought sees beauty ; emcr
tion feels it.
Theodore Parker
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I magination, the image-making power, com­
mon to all who have the gift of dreams.
I. R. Lowell
I magination disposes of everything; it creates
beauty, justice, and happiness, which are every­
thing in the world.
Pascal
I magination is the eye of the soul.
Joubert
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth
glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ;
and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things
unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape, and
gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name.
Shakespeare
I magination is more powerful than know­
ledge.
Albert Einstein
The dictionary defines imagination as the action of
forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually
present to the senses. It is your ability to meet and resolve
difficulties; resourcefulness; to solve business problems with
imagination; a j ob that requires imagination.
Imagination is one of the primal faculties of your
mind and , like any other power, you can use it construc­
tively or destructively and reap results according to the
way you use your mental images. In this chapter, the
author refers to disciplined, controlled and divinely directed
imagination. When you use your imaginative power wisely
and harmoniously, you can proj ect and clothe your ideas,
plans, and purposes, giving them visibility on the screen
of space.
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How She Made the Impossible Possible
Some months ago I had a long telephone conversation
with a woman in Georgia, whom we shall call Mrs. X. She
said that because of the high interest rates and the high price
for her home, the real estate agents had not been able to get a
single client even to look at it. Her husband had passed on
and she was living alone in the house, while at the same time
suffering from financial stress and strain due to her inability
to keep up the payments and taxes.
I gave her the fo llowing simple technique : Sit still, relax,
immobilize your attention, and focus your mind's eye on the
check for $ 1 00,000 which is what you want for the house.
Touch the check With your imaginary hands, feel and
perceive its reality, give thanks for it, and repeat this "mental
movie" for four or five minutes several times a day ; gradually
you will find the image will sink into your subconscious
mind. When you succeed in conveying the mental image to
your subconscious, the latter will bring it to pass.
A few weeks went by, and Mrs. X wrote, saying that she
had sold the house to a research professor who had come
from New York with his four children. He saw that it was the
ideal home for him. She said that she had become very still
and sleepy and had imagined the check for $ 1 00,000 made
out in her name, and in her imagination she had gone into the
local qank and deposited it. All this had taken place in her
mental imagery. She had done this for four or five minutes at
intervals of one hour each day fo r two weeks. After that she
had had no further desire to dramatize the event in her mind,
as a feeling of peace and relaxation had come over her and
she knew intuitively that her prayer was answered. This
professor saw the sign "For sale by owner," and the minute
he walked in the door, he said, "This is it."
Remember that your imagination, when disciplined,
spiritualized, controlled, and directed, becomes the most
exalted and noblest attribute of man.
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How a Widow of 72 Banished Loneliness
During an interview with Mrs. M, I listened while she
gave me all the reasons why she could not get married,
instead of all the reasons why she could. Mrs. M complained
that although she had written for prayers to all the New
Thought Churches to pray for the right husband for her, all
the effort had come to naught. She said that her children
were grown up, married, and living as far as 3,000 miles
away, and that while she had met many widowers in her
retirement city, no one had proposed to her.
At my suggestion, Mrs. M practiced an imaginary scene
wherein she pictured and felt herself tb be in my study where
I was conducting the marriage ceremony. She heard my voice
saying, "I now pronounce you man and wife." In this
·
imaginary drama, she felt the imaginary ring on her finger.
She dramatized this picture in her mind over and over again
until she felt it to be so real that when she opened her eyes,
she had the feeling that she wasn't in her own home but
actually in my study. What had happened was that she had
made the whole mental imagery so actual and vivid that she
embodied it subconsciously and had no further desire to
repeat the mental drama. She developed . a high sense of
perception.
Shortly afterward, on a trip to visit her son in New York
City, Mrs. M met a wonderful retired physician on the train.
While she was in New York, he invited her out a few times
a n d shortly thereafter proposed marriage, which she
accepted. She had used her imagination wisely by perceiving
the end, the finished thing; then her subconscious had
brought it to pass in its own way.
By hearing the words "I now pronounce you man and
wife" and by feeling the imaginary ring on her finger, she had
implied to her subconscious that she was already married
mentally to the ideal man who harmonized with her in every
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way. When you pray, contemplate the happy ending, rejoice
in it, and you will experience the joy of the answered prayer.
How Her Perception Established the
Mental Equivalent of a Million Dollars
I had the most amazing telephone call from the husband
of a woman whom we shall call Mrs. H, saying: "My wife just
inherited a million dollars. You told her what to do."
Naturally, I congratulated him and wished for both of them
all the blessin� of life. I recalled talking to her one Sunday
after a lecture at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles at
which time she had said that she wanted a million dollars for
a certain project which was very sound and constructive. I
explained to her that she first had to establish the mental
equivalent of a million dollars in her mind, and that she could
do this by getting intensely interested in the finished project,
looking at it in her mind, rejoicing in the accomplished fact,
and giving thanks for the wonder of it all.
She pictured the end in her mind, made it very vivid and
real, and every night prior to sleep, she would affirm "a
million, a million, a million," over and over again as a lullaby
until she fell asleep, knowing her subconscious must sooner
or later accept it. At the end of about a month, she was
advised by an attorney that she had inherited over a million
dollars. It was, as her husband said, "completely out of the
·blue." Mrs. H had done what Shakespeare said. She gave to
", . . airy nothing a local habitation and a name." Through
frequent habitation in her mind, she succeeded in making it a
reality, and her subconscious brought it to pass in ways she
knew not of.
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How to Become Acquainted with the Perceptive
Designer Within You
Within you are a designer, an architect, and a weaver.
They take the image of your mind and ·mold it into a pattern
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of life which brings you peace, joy, and victory. The greatest
and richest galleries are the galleries of the mind devoted to
wisdom, truth, and beauty.
Picture your ideal in life ; live mentally with this ideal.
Let the ideal captivate your perceptive imagination. You will
move in the direction of the mental image which governs
your mind. The ideals of life are like the dew of heaven
which move over the arid areas of your mind, refreshing and .
invigorating you. With your disciplined imagination, you can
soar above all appearances, discord, and sense evidence, and
imagine the way things ought to be while realizing the
sublime principle of harmony operating through, in, and
behind all things. Rej ect the evidence of your senses and
realize that the inside controls the outside. Your mental
image is the reality, or the inside, and its external manifesta­
tion, or form, is the outside.
Why He Called Perceptive Imagination the
Workshop of God
Recently I had lunch with an extraordinary young man
whom we shall call J . J. He is in the radio and communica­
tion field. He has been reading Yo ur Infinite Po wer to Be
Ri<;h * and he said, "I could quote it by heart." His avocation
on weekends is to take his wife to Caliente Race Track. He
had been in the habit of losing $ 1 0 to $ 1 5 weekly at the
track, and his wife had said to him that he should use his
subconscious mind and win a large sum so they could buy a
new home in Beverly Hills.
·
Accordingly, he began to still his mind every night for
about 1 5 minutes and in a quiet, passive way, he would
imagine the cashier giving him a check for $5 0,000 and
saying to him, "Boy, you're lucky." He felt himself at the
cashier's window and he imagined hearing the voice of the
*Dr. Joseph Murphy, Your Infinite Power to Be Rich (West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker
Publishing Company, Inc., 1 966).
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cashier. He looked at the check, touched it with his imagi­
nary hands, and rejoiced and gave thanks for it. I n his vivid,
intense, dramatic, and imaginative way, he showed the check
to his wife, saying: "Honey, the house you wanted is yours."
In this imaginary drama, she would exclaim, "It is wonder­
ful ! " over and over again.
He rehearsed this drama in his mind night after night for
about a month. He said that sometimes this scenic drama was
so real, vivid, and seemingly tangible that when he opened his
eyes he was amazed to find himself in his bedroom instead of
at the race track. This state of mind is indicative of success in
conveying the picture to the subconscious mind.
The fifth week after beginning the above-mentioned
technique, he went to Caliente and was, as he said, absolutely
confident that he would get the check he had pictured and
felt as true subjectively. He bet rather large sums on six races
and they were all winners. As he presented his tickets to the
cashier, the cashier gave him a check for $50,000, saying to
him exactly as he had subj ectively affirmed every night for
over a month, " Boy, you're lucky . "
H e i s n o w living i n a lovely home i n Beverly Hills, for
which he paid the $ 5 0,000 received at Caliente. Because of a
vast increase in value of real estate in the last few years, it is
now worth double that price. He and his wife have never
been to the races since that day several years ago, as they are
both too busy working every day in the radio and television
field helping to heal the wounds of man.
Sir Winston Churchill once said, "This is an age in which
the mental attitude decides the fortunes of people rather
than the fortunes decide the mood. " The ancient Hebrews
said, "Imagination is the workshop of God." Psychic percep­
tion is your key to constructive imagination.
POINTS TO REMEMBER
1 . Your J?Sychic imagination is your capacity to form
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mental images or concepts of what is not actually
present to the physical senses.
2. I magination is one of the foremost faculties of your
mind. When disciplined, it enables you to clothe
your ideas, dreams, or aspirations and project them
on the screen of space.
3. Regardless of evidence of senses, you can imagine
that you have sold your home. Feel the reality of the
sale mentally, looking at the imaginary check in your
imaginary hands, feeling it, rej oicing in it, and repeat­
ing the drama over and over again until you sense the
•
subjective reality of it. You will know when you
have succeeded in conveying the mental picture to
your mind, the reason being that a sense of peace
and inner knowing arises, whereby you know that
you know. It is an intuitive awareness.
4. A simple technique in attracting the right marriage
partner was employed by a 7 2-year-old widow. All
she did was to imagine that
I was in front of her in
my study, and in her imagination she heard me say
over and over again,
wife."
"I now pronounce you man and
She felt the imaginary ring on her finger,
which implied to her that she was already married.
The whole mental
movie, which she dramatized
repeatedly, intensively, and j oyously, conveyed to
her that she was already married to the ideal man
who harmonized with her in every way. After a few
weeks she actually met the man of her dream, and
they were married. The law is that whatever you
imagine and feel to be true sinks into your subcon­
scious mind, which in turn brings it to pass.
5. A woman wanted a million dollars for a wonderful
proj ect for herself and her husband. She realized she
had to establish the mental psychic equivalent before
she could receive it. Accordingly, every night she
would imagine she was looking at the finished pro-
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ject and giving thanks for the wonders of it all; at the
same time, she would silently, feelingly, and know­
ingly lull herself to sleep every night with the one
word " million," knowing that her subconscious mind
was aware it was a million dollars she needed. At the
end of a month, her husband called me, saying: "My
wife just inherited a million dollars out of the blue."
She had succeeded in establishing the mental or
psychic
equivalent
in her subconscious mind by
reiterating ••a million" over and over again and by
picturing the completed million-dollar proj ect. She
knew that ideas are conveyed to the subconscious by
repetition.
6. Picture your ideal in life; live mentally with this
ideal, and you will move in the direction of the ideal
which governs your mind.
7. A_ young radio engineer wanted to buy a home for
his wife and didn't have the money. His avocation
was the study of the racing sheet and betting $ 1 0 or
$ 1 5 weekly but with negative results. He read Your
Infinite Power to Be Rich, * one of my popular
books, and he began to use his imagination wisely,
constructively, and judiciously. He imagined himself
at
the
cashier's
window at Caliente Race Track
receiving a check for $ 5 0,000 and felt the solidity
and tangibility of the cashier's cage. In his vivid .
imaginary scene,
the cashier said to him, "Boy,
you're lucky." In about a month's time he succeeded
in impregnating his subconscious mind, and on sub­
sequently visiting the race track, he literally won
$50,000.
*Dr. ioseph Murphy, Your Infinite Power to Be Rich (West Nyack, N.Y.: Parker
Publishing Company, Inc., 1 966).
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How to Know
the Mysterious Perceptive Powers
of Your Mind
You have a conscious and a subconscious* mind. These
represent two phases or functions of your mind. Sometimes
they are referred to as the obj ective and subj ective mind�
With your conscious mind you reason, analyze, and make use
of your five senses to govern your contact with the world.
Your conscious mind reasons inductively and deductively.
Your subconscious mind is the seat of memory, emotions and
intuition. It is the seat of clairvoyance, clairaudience, tele­
kinesis, and telepathy.
In your subconscious you will find infinite intelligence
and boundless wisdom and all the riches of the I nfinite
waiting for you to tap. I n a passive, psychic state it is possible
for a good sensitive to read your thoughts, even to the
minutest detail ; he (or she) may even read a sealed letter in
*See The Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Dr. Joseph Murphy, Prentice­
Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1963.
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your pocket which you have not yet read yourself. Many
have developed the clairvoyant powers of their subconscious
to
the
extent
that
they have the ability to- see events
happening at a distance and independent of their five senses.
Your subconscious is sometimes referred to as the soul.
A very important thing to remember is that your subcon­
scious mind is constantly amenable to suggestion. For exam­
ple, if you are placed in a hypnotic state, your subconscious
mind will accept without hesitation every suggestion made by
the operator, no matter how absurd or incongruous it may
seem to your conscious mind.
What Experiences Reveal about Your Subconscious
For example, the author has witnessed many hypnotic
experiments in different parts of the world. In one, he has
seen a man put into a trance and told by the psychologist
that he was a dog. The man accepted the suggestion and
played the role of a dog to the best of his ability, lapping up
milk from a plate, barking, etc. In other experiments, when a
man is told that he is President Roosevelt, and if he is old
enough to remember the former president's voice, manner­
isms, and gestures, he will reenact the role with the vocal
intonations characteristic of Mr. Roosevelt.
Remember, your subconscious is amenable to the power
of suggestion and acts upon it, whether the suggestion given
is true or false. Your subconscious brings it to a logical
'
conclusion based on the premise given it while your con­
scious mind is suspended and in abeyance. Your subconscious
does not reason like your conscious mind but accepts the
idea given it ; and, working by deduction, it responds accord­
ing to the nature of the suggestion given. It is absolutely
essential that you understand this mode of operation ; other­
wise, you may be tricked, deceived, and fooled by all manner
of fraudulent operators. You must intuitively perceive all this
deception.
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He Was Totd He Was Possessed by a Devil
Some years ago in London, England, I witnessed a
medical doctor hypnotize a seminary student called Pat. He
suggested to Pat that he was possessed by devils. Immediately
the student turned pale, shook with terror, and began to
scream and yell. He was about to go into convulsions, but the
doctor immediately removed the suggestion and told him he
was free now, calm, peaceful and perfectly well. When he
awakened he had no memory of what had happened and was
completely relaxed and at ease.
It is easy to understand what happened. First of all, of
course, there is no such thing as a devil or the condition of
being possessed by devils, but Pat believed in a devil and
devils; therefore, he saw what he believed to be devils-half
man and half beast with cloven hooves, horns of a goat, and a
fiery tail which stings. These forms were what we call
subjective hallucinations based on portrayals of devils given
to Pat when he was a boy. The actual devils which haunt us,
when we lose our perceptive faculties, are fear, ignorance,
superstition, hate, jealousy, remorse, etc.
How Pat Described Heaven
Pat was again hypnotized and told he was in heaven. He
was asked to describe what he saw. Immediately his counte­
nance changed ; he seemed peaceful, j<;>yous, and almost
ecstatic. He told us all about the beautiful angels who were
there, and he saw a magnificent golden throne, and sitting on
the throne a man who seemed to be a great sage. The man,
who looked like Jesus, had a scripture in his hand. Pat also
heard beautiful music, which he described as a celestial choir.
It is obvious to anyone who is informed on this subject
that since the subconscious mind is controlled by suggestion,
the imaginary picture Pat saw of heaven was based on his
early boyhood beliefs and theological instructions. He
believed that heaven was a place where you go when you die.
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The suggestion of the doctor simply activated his subcon­
scious beliefs and opinions and dramatized his premise,
though false, to what seemed to be a logical conclusion.
Remember this clearly : The suggestions given to Pat in
the trance state, whether true or false, were reasoned deduc­
tively only and dramatized by his subconscious with marvel­
ous acumen and sagacity.
Experiments on Medical Students and
How Many Drank Water and Became Drunk
Another interesting experiment conducted by this same
medical man was that of hypnotizing two medical students
who were present . To one he gave soap shavings and told him
it was a banana and that he would relish it, digest it, and feel
good afterwards. This student ate the soap shavings and had
no subsequent gastric distress. To another hypnotized stu­
dent, he said he had a very high temperature and rapid pulse
and was perspiring copiously. All these symptoms were
manifested immediately.
Mary, in the trance state, was given a glass of water and
told it was Irish whiskey. She became highly intoxicated,
murmuring gibberish and staggering all over the place. The
doctor gave her a tablespoonful of water and told her that it
was a specific drug from Germany which would instantly
bring about sobriety and peace of mind. His mere suggestion
acted as the perfect antidote for Mary. When she was
awakened she felt absolutely normal and at peace.
This demonstrates the amenability of the subconscious
to suggestion as well as its creative power.
Your Auto-Suggestion Can Prevent
You from Being Hypnotized
You cannot be hypnotized by another provided you
convey to your subconscious the idea that no one can
hypnotize you without your consent. Hypnosis is usually
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induced by the suggestion of the operator. His failure to
hypnotize you is due to your suggestion to your subcon­
scious that he cannot do it. Your auto-suggestion is more
powerful than his suggestion; this is why he fails. All this is
due to the way your subconscious works ; the stronger
suggestion always prevails.
The Reason Why the Hypnotist Failed
Some years ago I attended a series of experiments on
hypnosis in the home of an outstanding lawyer-psychologist
in New York City. He hypnotized a young girl and repeatedly
suggested to her that she should disrobe. This was in the
presence of about 1 2 men and women. She refused to
cooperate in any way, and seemed highly disturbed and
distressed. The psychologist seemed confounded by her
stubborn resistance because he had boasted she would do
anything he told her to do when she was in the hypnotic
state. He had expected passive obedience, which he did not
get because he was unaware of the subtle role of the
counter-suggestion this girl had given to herself. She retained
her perception.
Your subconscious always accepts the more dominant
of two ideas or suggestions. The girl's auto-suggestion, prior
to the hypnotic sleep experiment, was this: "I will do
absolutely nothing contrary to my moral or religious code.
My subconscious accepts this."
This demonstrates that suggestion is the controlling
power governing your subconscious. Your subconscious is
amenable to the suggestions of your own conscious mind just
as well as that of another. In the waking state you can always
reject the suggestions of others and think on whatsoever
things are true, lovely, and of good report.
How She Was Freed from a So-Called Evil Spirit
From the foregoing illustration, you can see how your
subconscious mind operates. Last year, while I was on a
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speaking engagement in San Francisco, a woman came to see
me at the hotel complaining that a discarnate entity who was
an evil spirit was constantly annoying her by pouring out
vulgarisms, obscenities and maledictions, commanding her to
violate her sex code, and even scratching her at night.
Recently he had been telling her to jump into the ocean and
commit suicide.
She had been taking tranquilizers and had had some
psychiatric consultations, but nothing seemed to do her any
good. This woman seemed frightened out of her wits. She
told me that many times, night and day, thii so-called entity
kept saying to her: "Take an overdose of Seconal. Go ahead.
Go ahead, kill yourself."
The Cause of Her Inner Turmoil
This woman, who believed in the literal interpretation
of the Bible and in evil spirits possessing her soul, did not
understand that the devils mentioned in the Bible were
simply personifications of hate, resentment, remorse, self­
condemnation, anger, and hostility, as well as other destruc­
tive emotions which are generated by destructive, negative
thoughts enthroned in the mind.
She had been practicing automatic writing for some
months. This means that she held a pencil in her hand,
believing some invisible spirit would guide her hand. Accord­
ing to the law of suggestion, her own subconscious mind
accepted the suggestion given it, and gradually it assumed
control of the muscles and nerves of her hand and propelled
her pencil. Her conscious mind was passive and quiescent,
and as she pointed out, objectively speaking, she was obli­
vious to what she was writing down. She was also fearful that
evil powers might write through her.
Moreover, she felt guilty and had a deep resentment
towards her husband, for he was impotent and completely
depleted sexually. The voices she heard which cursed God,
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her Bible, and herself were merely a playback from the
poisonous food she had been feeding her subconscious mind.
She Didn't Know the Power of Auto-Suggestion
The entity that she believed to be speaking to her was in
actual fact her own suggestion of fear. Job said: That which I
greatly feared is come upon me (Job 3 : 2 5 ). This woman
associated her automatic writing with the idea of spirits, not
knowing that it was actually her subconscious mind repro­
ducing what she had impressed upon it. Her subconscious was
dominated by fear, guilt (because she hated her husband),
plus the fact that she believed she should and would be
punished because of her deep-seated resentment and hostil­
ity. These voices seemed like another personality, when
actually they were a dramatization of the negative contents
of her subconscious. Actually, she was talking to herself.
How She Healed Herself and Experienced Peace of Mind
Frankly, I think my explanation to her was 90 percent
of the healing process. I explained to her that it is absolutely
impossible for negative and destructive voices and emotions
.to dwell in a mind dedicated and consecrated to the God­
Presence within one, and that all she had to do was to fill
her mind with the truths of God, which would then crowd
out of her mind everything unlike God, or the truth.
Accordingly, at my suggestion, morning, noon, and
night, she repeated out loud the words of the great healing
and protective 9 1 st Psalm, knowing that as she affirmed these
truths, they would neutralize, obliterate, and expunge from
her subconscious all the negative patterns lodged in the
recesses of her deeper mind. She made the 9 l st Psalm a vital
part of her life, and whenever any negative voice or thought
came to her from her deeper self, she would affirm immedi­
ately : "God loves me and cares for me."
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After about ten days, these destructive voices lost all
momentum and she found herself at peace. You can saturate
your mind by repeating the marvelous spiritual gems of the
9 l st Psalm :
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the
most High shall abide under the shadow of the
Almigh ty.
I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my
fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
Surely he shall deliver thee fro m the snare of
the fo wler, and fro m the noisome pestilence.
He shall cover thee with his feathers, and
under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be
thy shield and buckler.
Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by
night; nor for the arro w that flieth by day;
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in dark­
ness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noon­
day.
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten
thousand at thy righ t hand; but it shall not come
nigh thee.
Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and
see the reward of the wicked.
Because thou hast made the Lord, which is
my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation ;
There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall
any plague come nigh thy dwelling.
For he shall give his angels charge over thee,
to keep thee in all thy ways.
They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest
thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Thou shalt tread upon the lion an d adder: the
young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample
under feet.
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Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high ,
because he hath known my name.
He shall call upon me, and I will answer him :
I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and
honour him.
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him
my salvation.
The above will surely increase your sense of psychic
perception.
How She Discovered Who Was Operating the Ouija Board
My secretary Mrs. Wright, the mother of two extra­
ordinarily brilliant young men , just informed me that some
years ago when she was a teenager, her grandmother and she
had spent many happy hours operating the ouija board and
receiving wonderful messages from supposedly unseen intel­
ligences. The ouija board was apparently propelled by some
unseen power, and the pointer spelled out answers to all
questions asked.
Mrs. Wright did not know at that time how the con­
scious and subconscious mind function, and she did not
believe in any supernatural entities or discarnate spirits
operating the ouija instru ment. The terms "spiritualism" and
"spiritualistic phenomena" also meant nothing to her at that
time.
One day she asked the ouija board, "Who is writing and
who is answering my questions?" The ouija spelled out,
"Louise Barrows." Louise is her middle name and Barrows
was her name prior to her marriage to her husband, Stan
Wright. This experiment demonstrates clearly that at the time
that Mrs. Wright operated the ouija board she knew nothing
about spiritualistic phenomena ; therefore, her subconscious
mind did not assume it was a spirit speaking. Had she
believed that some deceased relative was responding, natu-
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rally, according to the law of suggestion, her subconscious
would have played the role of a deceased relative.
Her grandmother, who rejected the hypothesis that
invisible entities operated the ouija board and sent answers
from the next dimension of life, asked the ouija board, "Is it
my own mind answering me?" The answer spelled out was
"only you." If she had entertained the idea that it was a
deceased person or some disembodied spirit operating, her
subconscious would have assumed the role and would have
answered accordingly.
Actually, it was the subconscious mind operating the
ouija board, and these people were just talking to themselves.
The law of parsimony or the simplicity in assumptions in
logical formulation must precede all other criteria in arriving
at an explanation. The onus probandi is placed where it
belongs, with those who claim invisible entities for the
phenomenon.
A Street-Walker Speaks Like a Goddess
The essence of the following presentation is taken from
pages 1 0 and 1 1 of My Personal Recollections of Thomas
Tro ward, a booklet by Harry Gaze. Permission for publica­
tion has been granted by his widow, Dr. Olive Gaze.
The late Dr. Harry Gaze, world lecturer, author, and
close friend of the late Judge Thomas Troward, author of
Edinburgh Lectures and many other books on mental and
spiritual laws, revealed an interesting experiment conducted
by himself, Dr. Cornwall Round of London, and Judge
Thomas Troward. Troward wanted to see Dr. Round perform
an experiment with the subconscious mind. Dr. Round was
an outstanding physician and surgeon in London and had
experimented extensively with hypnosis.
At Dr. Gaze's request, Judge Troward attended the
Psycho-Therapeutic Society, and Dr. Round fetched a profes­
sional street-walker to whom they paid a very good fee,
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considerably in excess of her usual honorarium. Dr. Gaze said
that she was assured that nothing would happen to hurt her
in any way and that she would feel refreshed and stimulated
after the hypnotic session.
After hypnotizing her, Dr. Round repeated to her
subconscious mind many times, "You are a high priestess in
the Temple of the Sun. You have a message for those who are
here. You will speak to us clearly and brilliantly. You know
great truths. You will tell us about them. You have wise and
able associates, and you are open to their wisdom. You are
fluent and able. Remember, you are a wise priestess, and you
can instruct us."
After much repetition of substantially the same words,
her regular, personal characteristics seemed to disappear and
a new and more attractive individual appeared. Finally, she
lifted herself up proudly and even regally, assumed the
impersonation of a goddess, and launched into a discourse in
which she talked eloquently and learnedly of life, philoso­
phy, and immortality.
Thomas Troward was profoundly impressed, as were
others, some of whom had previously tested hypnosis for
medical usage, and sometimes as an anesthetic for minor
operations. Judge Troward exclaimed, "This certainly proves
that there is a subjective mind that can accept and imper­
sonate what is vividly suggested, when hypnotism has placed
the conscious mind in abeyance ; but, of course, the thought
is the real power." The answer was an elevation of psychic
perception.
Interestingly, the company had various views about the
source of the phenomenon. One man was positive that the
subject matter of the discourse, as well as the changed
deportment of the woman, were supplied by a control in the
form of a disembodied spirit of great intelligence. He saw in
these results a proof of spirit communication. The consensus,
however, shared by Judge Troward, Dr. Harry Gaze, and Dr.
Round, was trat it illustrated the normal powers of the
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subjective mind, and that the ideas advanced were a com­
posite of the ideas held by those present, or ideas received
from the treasury or storehouse of the universal subjective
mind.
I have been using information from a written report of
an experiment related by the late Dr. Harry Gaze, and the
way I look at it is simply that when the subject was in the
trance state, she responded to the suggestion of Dr. Round.
Her subconscious in turn tapped the contents of the minds of
those present, through her psychic perception, who were very
familiar with Vedantic philosophy, and Oriental, Buddhist,
and Hindu religions.
Her subconscious then, with amazing sagacity and men­
tal acumen, synthesized the various contents resident in the
subconscious of all present and presented them in logical
sequence, conforming to the nature of the suggestions given
by Dr. Round.
Oftentimes You Get a Psychic Message from Yourself
An old friend of mine in New York City experimented
with a number of men and women who were self-styled
mediums, and who professed to get in touch with relatives in
the nex t dimension. During these experiments he would give
his own name and ask for a communication. The medium
assumed he had a brother or father in the next dimension,
and he always received very comforting and loving messages
from an imaginary deceased brother and sometimes even
from his father.
In other words, he had a very touching communication
from himself, the reason being that the mediums acted on the
supposition that his own name represented a deceased rela­
tive. The fact is he had no deceased brother or father, which
made him even more convinced that it was simply the
medium's subconscious reacting to her own suggestions. She
had gone into a trance state, suggesting to her subconscious
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that she would get a communication from the supposed loved
0ne in the next dimension, and her subconscious obliged him
with an affectionate message from himself.
There Are Outstanding Exceptions
Not all communications have their origin solely in the
subconscious of the sitter or the medium. There are some
extraordinary, outstanding mediums of unimpeachable integ­
rity. As you have already deduced from reading this chapter,
it is j ust as easy to receive messages from a living person
through an entranced medium as from a so-called dead
person, and also from an imaginary person, as from a real
one, by making the appropriate suggestion to the subcon­
scious mind.
The late Arthur Ford was one of America's foremost
mediums, and there is no doubt that when he was entranced
extraordinary and verifiable messages came forth through
him. Undoubtedly, in his case, he served as a channel through
which communications came from loved ones in the next
dimension. Countless listeners testify that they are genuine.
For example, I believe that Bishop Pike's communications
with his deceased son were authentic and real.
Suppose, for instance, that your father called you from
London, England, and suppose someone else was mimicking
his voice and pretending to be your father; would you not
have all sorts of ways and means of discovering whether it
was really your father or _not? Certain anecdotes, pet names,
trivial incidents, and a host of other experiences known only
to both of you would soon convince you it was your father.
The late Geraldine Cummins, author of many books
investigated by many scientific bodies, was at times undoubt­
edly in touch with people in the next dimension. It would be
foolish to say it is impossible, because we are all mental and
spiritual beings, and telepathic contact exists between loved
ones all the time.
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I f you are in Chicago and your mother is in Los Angeles,
you can receive a telepathic message from her, and she can
also receive one from you. How often have you seen the
entire contents of a friend's or relative's letter in your sleep
and then received it a few days later and discovered that its
contents coincided with your dream? It is perfectly possible
also for loved ones in the next dimension to communicate
with you, but it is certainly the exception rather than the
rule.
Eileen Garrett is another extraordinary medium studied
by many leading scientific bodies. Sir Oliver Lodge, one of
the world's foremost physicists, was absolutely convinced
that he had communicated with his son, who had died in the
First World War. These dialogues were reported in his book
entitled Raymond, published in 1 9 1 6.
Some of the great scientists who have contributed to
psychical research are as follows: Henry Sidgwick, Edmund
Gurney, Professor William James (called the father of Ameri­
can psychology), Sir William Crookes, Arthur Conan Doyle,
and J. B. Rhine. Myers of Cambridge published Human
Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, a universally
acknowledged masterpiece.
It is true, mind can communicate with mind, and we
must learn to differentiate between communication from our
subconscious mind and that of a loved one. Do not seek
guidance from men or women either on this plane or the next
dimension. They do it through psychic perception. Follow
the injunction of the Bible, which says: If any of you lack
wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally,
and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him (James 1 : 5).
POINTS TO REMEMBER
1 . There are two phases of your mind. One is called
the conscious mind, which chooses, rationalizes,
analyzes, and reasons. inductively and deductively.
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3.
4.
5.
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The other is your subconscious mind which only
reasons deductively. It is the seat of memory,
emotion, clairvoyance, clairaudience, and telepathy.
Infinite intelligence and boundless wisdom reside in
your subconscious mind. Whatever your conscious
mind conveys to your subconscious, the latter
accepts, whether it is true or false.
Your subconscious mind does not look at two ideas
and then make a decision as to which is best. You
are to decide that with your conscious mind.
When you are hypnotized, your subconscious mind
will accept the suggestion of the operator without
question. For example, if you are told you are a
dog, you will play the part of a dog to the best of
your ability. You will bark when you are told to do
so and you will lap up milk like a dog.
Your subconscious mind is amenable to suggestion
and is controlled by suggestion. For instance, if a
person believes in devils or evil spirits and in a
hypnotic trance it is suggested to him that he is
possessed by devils, he will dramatize and exhibit
the roles of as many devils as are embraced in the
suggestion. In other words, his subconscious accepts
the suggestion. Subjective hallucinations of devils
with hooves and horns, tails with stings, wings of a
bat, and other horrendous monitions and shapes
appear, all of which are figments of his distorted,
twisted superstitions and beliefs which his subcon­
scious dredges up to conform to his beliefs. A man
who never heard of devils and did not believe in
such teachings would not have any such experience.
If you say to a hypnotized person who believes in a
heaven up there somewhere and who believes that
there are angels and golden thrones and celestial
choirs, "You are in heaven now," he will become
peaceful, loving, and ecstatic and describe what he
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6.
7.
8.
9.
1 0.
believes to be heaven. His subconscious, accepting
the suggestion, dramatizes his childhood belief and
picture of heaven. He doesn't know that he is in
heaven now, which is his o wn mind and spirit.
If you give a glass of water to a hypnotized subject
and tell him it is whiskey, he will become intoxi­
cated and play the role of a drunkard. The reason is
his subconscious takes your suggestion literally and
acts accordingly.
If, prior to being hypnotized, you give yourself a
powerful auto-suggestion that you will not do
anything ridiculous or contrary to your moral code,
the suggestion of the operator that you disrobe or
steal will prove to be of no avail because your
subconscious accepts your dominant suggestion.
The stronger suggestion always prevails.
If you suggest to yourself boldly and meaningfully
that no one can hypnotize you, it follows automati­
cally that you can't be hypnotized by the operator.
You simply close your mind to his suggestion and
tune in on the Infinite within you, and then you are
immune.
In the waking state you can always reject the
suggestions of others by thinking on whatsoever
things are true, lovely, noble, and God-like.
I t is dangerous to practice automatic (psychic)
writing if you are afraid of evil spirits, discamate
entities, or guides in the astral realm. You attract
what you fear, and when you suggest fear to your
subconscious and feel guilty and resentful toward
others, you open up the psychic doors of your
mind and dredge up all the debris from your
subconscious. When you feel guilty, it is always
accompanied by fear and expectation of punish­
ment, and your subconscious, reacting according to
the suggestions given it (namely, fear, guilt, resent-
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ment, etc.) , proceeds to talk to you, oftentimes in
blasphemous language, disturbing you mentally and
physically. Actually, it is a playback of the contents
of your own subconscious mind.
1 1 . The way to overcome the hearing of voices and the
belief that you are possessed by evil entities which
urge you to commit suicide and all manner of evil is
to realize that when you fill your mind with the
truths of God, you neutralize and obliterate all
these negative patterns. The best prayer to use is
the protective 9 1 st Psalm. Read it over slowly,
quietly, and feelingly many times a day. These
spiritual vibrations will be conveyed to your sub­
conscious mind and will destroy, annihilate, and
cleanse all dirty linen in the closet of your mind.
When fear and negative voices come to your mind,
affirm immediately : "God's love fills my soul."
Keep it up and after a while you will be free.
1 2. A woman asked the ouij a board, "Who is writing
the message?" The answer was, "Only you." In
other words, her subconscious mind was operating
the ouija board, supplying whatever kind of mes­
sage she wished to hear; her subconscious, being
governed by suggestion, acted accordingly. Had she
believed in discarnate entities or that departed
loved ones were operating the ouija board and
responding to her, her subconscious mind, being
true to its nature, would have played the role of an
imaginary departed relative.
1 3. It is possible to take even a streetwalker who has
little or no education and who knows nothing
about Eastern philosophy, Oriental religions, or
immortality, and hypnotize her to activate her
psychic perception in the presence of men and
women who are thoroughly versed in these subjects.
When potent suggestions are given to her, such as
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1 4.
15.
1 6.
17.
"You are now a priestess in the Temple of the Sun;
you will give a marvelous disquisition on Oriental
philosophy ; you are very wise, learned etc.," her
appearance changes and she assumes a regal posture
and gives a marvelous lecture. Her subconscious acts
upon the suggestion given and taps the subcon­
scious mind of all present, and her discourse is
simply a composite of their beliefs and assump­
tions. In the trance state, she could also receive data
on these subjects from the treasury or storehouse of
the universal subconscious.
There are many self-styled mediums who profess to
get in touch with loved ones in the next dimension
of life. You can go to one and give your name, such
as Mary Jones, and ask for a message. The medium
assumes it is a sister or mother in the next dimen­
sion, but you have no sister or mother there. You .
receive a very comforting, loving message pur­
porting to be from your loved one. All this is due to
the suggestion of the medium to her subconscious
mind, and it answers accordingly. The same
medium will give you a comforting message from an
imaginary or non-existent person, also.
There are outstanding mediums who undoubtedly
do receive communications from the next dimen­
sion of life; among them are Arthur Ford, Eileen
Garrett, and the late Geraldine Cummins, who was
investigated by a great number of scientific bodies.
She has been acclaimed by the Psychical Research
Society of England.
I believe the late Bishop Pike's dialogues with his
son through the mediumship of Arthur Ford were
definitely genuine, fourth-dimensional communica­
tions between father and son.
If you hypnotized a man and suggested to him he
was your brother but he had never met your
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brother, he would be incapable of assuming his
gestures, demeanor, diction, tonal qualities, or man­
nerisms. He would play an imaginary role, but it
would not be that of your brother. He could not
impersonate your brother because his subconscious
had no memory of your brother.
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The Book of Proverbs 1 3 : 24 says: He that spareth his
rod hateth his son : but he that loveth him chasteneth him
betimes. Proverbs 23 : 1 3 and 2 9 : 1 5 : Withhold not correction
from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall
not die. Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver
his soul from hell. The rod and reproof give wisdom : but a
child left to himself bringeth his mo ther to shame.
These are marvelous words of wisdom for parents today.
The modern-day custom of permissiveness and generally
letting the child do what he wants to do without correction
and discipline is disastrous. Every child needs discipline and
correction. You must express your disapproval when a small
boy hits his sister or breaks her dolls. Let him know in no
uncertain terms that he is not allowed to do this.
Children can be little animals. They may want to run
wild and not go to school ; you may have to take them by the
ear and see to it that they do go to school and behave. There
is no love without discipline and no discipline without love.
He that spareth the rod hateth. . . "Hate" in the Bible
means to rej ect the negatives, such as impudence, lying,
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disorderly conduct, stealing, etc. Keep in mind the fact that
we are dealing with the language of the 1 6th century. Except
a man hate his father. . doesn't mean you hate your father.
It means to reject his beliefs of hell, of an angry God, and of
superstitious beliefs. He tha t loveth his son chasteneth.
means that the father disciplines his son or his daughter and
makes the child conform to the Golden Rule and the law of
love.
A child has to be taught manners, deportment, sharing,
cooperation, respect for authority, respect for parents, and
prayer therapy. Withhold not correction from the child: for
if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die. He shall
not die to love, peace, harmony, right action, honesty,
respect for others and their property, and reverence for
things Divine. "I die daily," Paul says; that is, die to ill will,
bitterness, and false beliefs.
Honor thy father and mother. If a boy doesn't honor his
parents, how can he respect his teachers, professors, police­
men, and others in authority? Wisdom is justified of her
children. Wisdom is awareness of the power of God. There
are "children" of the mind, also, such as books, plays,
paintings, buildings, songs, music, and shows. When you look
at the cesspool of iniquity displayed on some book stalls, you
realize they must come forth from twisted, distorted, and
disturbed personalities-which, to say the least, is putting it
mildly.
If you had a deep reverence for the Supreme Architect,
what kind of paintings would you bring forth? Since you
would be in tune with the indescribable beauty of God, you
would bring forth things of beauty and joy forever. In this
light, think of the art of Michaelangelo.
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.
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, an d shalt deliyer his
soul fro m hell. "Hell" means restriction, self-imposed bond­
age, misery, and suffering-all brought on by poisoning and
polluting our subconscious mind with hatred, resentment,
hostility, and bigotry ; but when the child is taught the real
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meaning of the Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule, and
the wholesome use of his mind, and is properly guided to
conform when he is young, he will grow up and acquire the
habit of filling his mind with life-giving patterns.
The rod and reproof g;.ve wisdom.
When you have
wisdom, you coordinate all your activities in Divine order.
You are capable of tuning in on the Infinite Intelligence
within you and receiving answers to the most perplexing
problems. "Divine order" means that you express yourself at
your highest level, and you radiate love and goodwill to all.
Having wisdom, you know that to hate, resent, or to be
envious of another, you simply poison your soul and mind
and bring all manner of diseases, mental and physical, upon
yourself.
A child left to himself bringeth his mo ther to shame.
This means that a child left to wander off without spiritual
instruction and without ordinary rules of good conduct will
grow up with a contaminated mind, will perhaps become a
delinquent, and possibly will even end up in jail.
I have visited some boys' clubs, and met with Boy
Scouts, DeMolays, and others, and they are remarkable boys,
clean and wholesome, with respect for their parents. They
also want to contribute to the harmony, beauty, and welfare
of their country. They want to be, to do, to have, and to
serve. They realize that they must change themselves, and
that by reforming themselves they will help to reform the
world.
You will perceive the wisdom, true knowledge, and
understanding of parents in the lives, actions, and reactions
of their sons and daughters. The children, as the Bible
mentions, "justify" the wisdom of their parents. To j ustify
means to fit exactly; mentally, it means that the children
reflect accurately the wise indoctrination of their parents.
Action by the parents and the reaction of the children are
equal. Their wisdom, which represents knowledge of the laws
of mind, and the response of Infinite Spirit, are definitely,
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positively, and absolutely reflected in their mental attitudes,
in their studies, and in their accomplishments and achieve­
ments in life.
When the wisdom of God is enthroned in the minds of
youth, the result is balance, equilibrium, harmony, peace,
right action, and happiness. The boy's work equates with his
state of mind. The inside and the outside are balanced, or
"justified."
Teach your children to pray for Divine guidance by
claiming it boldly , and the impulse will always be lifeward,
upward, and Godward. The law of correspondence, or paral­
lels, is always working. All of us, including boys and girls, get
the result which corresponds to our habitual thinking and
imagery .
This is what an outstanding educator, Mr. William H.
Thrall, has to say :
"I am a sort of an old-fashioned educator, and I have
administered my share of corporal punishment in my day. I
applied this treatment judiciously, and in every case it
seemed to be of value to the pupil concerned.
"I cannot help being acquainted with many of the
permissive parents, because there are so many of them. They
are shocked and saddened when they learn that their off­
spring is in jail, is pregnant without a husband, is on dope, or
is dead from dope. I am saddened for them, and I have
known them all, but in many cases wise corporal punishment
and a sincere religious atmosphere might have prevented the
tragedy.
"Corporal punishment and religion are basic parts of the
British school system, and when I was employed by the
British, I saw no hippies, sloppy dress, drug addiction, or lack
of respect for authority."
Boy Says Father Is Too Easy-Going
A young boy about 1 1 years of age, who was making
troub1e in school, insulting the teacher, and stealing from
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other children, was whipped by his father with a strap.
Afterwards,
his
father
said
to
him,
"Son, I'm sorry. I
shouldn't have whipped you . "
The little boy said, "I deserved it, and I don't know why
he said he was sorry."
The boy knew he was wrong and deserved the punish­
ment, and it was very foolish for the father to talk to his son
that way. Presumably, the father thought his son would love
him less because he disciplined him. On the contrary , the
father showed his interest in the welfare of his son by
punishing him. Actually , he demonstrated his love in the
sense that he wanted his son to grow up to be honest,
upright, and a good student. No boy resents being punished
when he knows he deserves it.
I might add that when a father or mother disciplines a
child, the parent is, in effect, saying, "I love you . I am
interested in your future. I want you to ifOW up to be a man
of integrity, justice, and honesty, a man whom your co­
workers, neighbors, and employers will respect because of
your contribution
to
society.
I am j ust endeavoring to
instruct
you to conduct yourself in an acceptable way,
because
one
of these days I am going on to the next
dimension of life and will not be around to watch over you
and advise you. Remember, if you cheat, rob, and insult
others, society will not forgive you and you will discover that
you will be punished for your misdeeds."
Let Psychic Perception Raise Your Child
Your perception of the truth that God indwells every
child gives you the opportunity to constantly claim that the
wisdom, intelligence, harmony, and love of God are resur­
rected in your offspring. You are always en rapport subcon­
sciously with your child, and the latter feels your conviction
and responds accordingly. You are living in an obj ective and
subjective world, and you must also do those things which
arc obj ectively correct.
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Wlt.y Permissiveness Is Always Wrong
Permissive parents do not really understand the laws of
their conscious and subconscious mind. Children learn by
education, observation, and experience. Parents should con­
trol their children, teach them about God and the powers
within them in a very simple way so the child can under­
stand. Children should never be permitted to do as they like,
but must definitely be taught and made to conform to the
Golden Rule and think, speak, and act towards others as they
would wish others to think, speak, and act towards them.
When parents do not correct and discipline their children,
or offer proper guidance, the latter lack self-reliance, secu­
rity, and self-control. Parents must exercise their authority
and
discipline
with
rationality,
understanding, love, and
responsiveness to the child. When they do, their children
grow up full of self-confidence,
poise, balance, and self­
control. These parents issue sound directives and instructions
to their children and they point out to them why their
commands are right. They are able to explain lucidly to the
children why the directives are for their good.
Avoid the Dictatorial, Authoritarian,
and Totalitarian Attitude
Recently
I talked to a young girl of 1 8, who said her
mother had laid the law down to her in no uncertain terms,
with orders such as: "Keep away from all boys; sex is evil ;
men are beasts like your father. You can't use rouge or
lipstick or powder-these are of the devil; you must not
dance or go to the movies-all these are sins; you must believe
in our religion-if you don't, you will burn in a lake of fire,"
etc.
This mother was really a little Hitler with her you-must­
do-this-or-else attitude. The girl was full of fear; she was
frustrated, hateful, discontented, and suffering from a pro­
foun d inferiority complex. She came from New England, and
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as you probably have surmised already, she had run away
from home.
The first thing I did was to teach her who she was from
a spiritual standpoint by explaining that there was only one
Power and Presence, and that It was within her. I further
explained to her that she could contact this Supreme Intelli­
gence and It would respond to her and guide, direct, and
prosper her beyond her fondest dreams.
The Special Prayer
The following is the prayer technique I suggested for
her:
I am wanted, I am loved, I am needed, I am
appreciated, I am Divinely expressed. I forgive
myself for harboring resentful thoughts, and I fully
and freely forgive my mother. Whenever I think of
her, I will affirm, 'God's love fills your soul.' I am
at peace. I am joyous, happy, and free. I am
gainfully employed. I have a wonderful income
consistent with integrity and honesty. I know that
as I repeat these ideas, they sink down into my
subconscious, and according to the law of my mind
(as I sow, so shall I reap), all these truths will come
to pass.
This young girl made a habit of this prayer, and in time
it completely transformed her life. She now has a wonderful
office position and is bubbling over with the joy of living.
She Asked, "Why Aren't My Parents Happy?"
A young girl of 1 4 was sent to talk with me by her
parents. She was getting very poor grades in school, hated
certain subjects, and her teacher reported to the parents that
she could do much better but that she seemed to have no
interest or motivation. She said to me that she supposed her
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parents would get a divorce, as they were always quarrelling
and saying nasty things to each other. Then she asked, "Why
aren't my parents happy? "
In talking with the parents, I pointed out that there was
no one to change but themselves and that there was no
question but that their daughter was mentally and emotion­
ally affected by the turmoil and bitterness in the home. They
agreed to spend five or six minutes every morning alternating
with Psalms: 1 , 23, 27, 9 1 , and 1 00. After meditating on one
of these Psalms every morning, they contemplated the Pre­
sence of God in their daughter, claiming that the wisdom,
intelligence, harmony, an d beauty of the Infinite were now
being resurrected in her · life. They both pictured her telling
them about her wonderful success in school. They imagined
her smiling, radiant, and happy.
At the end of a month's time, this young girl became
one
of the finest students in the school. Her manners,
deportment, and outlook on life thrilled her parents and
made them very happy.
This is to remind all parents that children grow in the
image and likeness of the dominant mental and spiritual
atmosphere of the home. As parents contemplate the Pre­
sence of God in their children , they will not be worried or
fearful about their welfare and protection. The parents who
commune with the indwelling God-Presence every day, claim­
ing harmony, peace, beauty, inspiration, and guidance, have
marriages which grow more blessed through the years, and
the rich spiritual atmosphere in the home will impinge on the
subconscious mind of their children.
You Must Possess a Psychic Insight
into the Power of Your Words
Parents must never say to their children: "You're no
good, you will never amount to anything, you are stupid,
you're dumb, you're a bad boy , etc." All these words are
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thoughts expressed, and the boys' or girls' minds, being very
impressionable, are receptive to these thoughts. The children
accept these thoughts subconsciously, and proceed to react
accordingly. The little boy begins to think he is stupid and
dumb when, in reality , he is not. Oftentimes he fi ghts back
by being delinquent, troublesome, and ho stile. There is no
use in saying to the boy that he is stupid in addition and
substraction since he doesn't know the answers. The only
thing to do is to teach him.
It is futile and foolish to denounce an d condemn a pail
of dirty water. The solution would be to pour clean water in,
even if it is drop by drop. After a reasonable period of time,
you will have a pail of clean water. Likewise, parents should
teach their children in a simple way that God is all-wise, that
He knows all things, and that He will always respond to
them. Teach them to ask God for guidance in their studies
with the confidence that He can solve every problem for
them. The young person can easily understand that God is
the life-principle within him and that he does not see God or
life ; neither does he see his thoughts, his mind, nor his love
for his dog, all of which represent God in him.
One boy of 1 2 , who regularly attends my lectures on
Sunday mornings, once said to his mother as he arrived
home, "Mom, I know where God is. God is within me. I can't
see God , but I can feel love, j oy, happiness, and that is God
moving in me. I can't see the wind, Mom, but I can feel the
breeze upon my face." There are many ways you can teach
boys or girls about the God-Presence within them, such as
listening to a beautiful symphony, yet pointing out that they
don't see the players. Show them that they may turn on the
light, but that they don't see electricity.
How to Keep God Alive in Your Home
Have regular morning and evening prayers in which the
children join. Teach the children to offer grace at mealtime
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and remind your boys and girls frequently that God created
all things-the stars, the sun, the moon, and the whole world,
and that when they love each other, they are expressing
God's love. Teach them that God is the Infinite Healing
Presence that heals a cut on their finger and gives them new
skin when they burn themselves.
Young boys and girls going to school become enthusi­
astic when I explain to them that if they practice a simple
technique every night they will be guided in their studies and
pass all their examinations easily and in a relaxed manner.
The following is the simple prayer that great numbers of
young boys and girls, as well as those going to college, use
regularly every night before going to sleep :
I am Divinely guided in my studies, and I have
a perfect memory for everything I need to know at
every moment of time and point of space. I pass all
examinations in Divine order. Whatever my study
assignments may be, I will give attention to them,
and I know my subconscious will prompt me and
reveal to me the answers when I need them. I sleep
in peace and I wake in j oy .
Pass o n this prayer technique t o your sons and daugh­
ters and explain to them that these simple truths, when
repeated regularly for five or six minutes every night, are
engraved in their subconscious mind, which is the seat of
memory ; and whatever is impressed on their subconscious
will be expressed. In other words, tell ti em that they will be
compelled to give a good account of themselves at every
examination, for the nature of the subconscious is compul­
sive.
A Young Girl of 1 2 Talks to
God and Solves Her Problem
A niece of mine studying in a convent in England wrote
me stating that when the sister in charge told her that she
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could do much better than she was doing, and after reflecting
on her studies, she decided to talk to God about it. Her
prayer was very simple and practical. Her dialogue was like
this :
"God, You are all wise ; guide me and show me how to
give my best in every way. Thank you, God." She expected
an answer and received one and is now getting along
famously with the teachers and her schoolmates and in her
studies.
Remember, the nature of this Supreme Intelligence
within you is responsiveness, and the simple prayer from the
heart always gets an answer. Teaching children the Presence
and Power of God is as necessary as food and vitamins,
clothing, and shelter. It is the living bread from heaven.
A Plan for Parents and Children
Parents should remember that they can give only what
they have or possess in their minds; therefore, parents should
learn the laws of the mind and the ways of the Infinite
Intelligence within all people throughout the world. Let this
be your creed :
God is, and all there is is God , i n all, over all,
through all, and all in all. God is the Living Spirit,
the Life-Principle within each one. God loves us
and cares for us. God comes first in our lives. As
we turn to this Infinite Presence and Power within
us and claim harmony, peace, abundance, wisdom,
right action, and beauty operating in our lives,
wonders happen as we pray this way .
Every morning when we open our eyes, we
give thanks to God for the new day and for the
marvelous opportunities to release more and more
of His light, love, truth, and beauty to all mankind.
Every night before we go to sleep, we will say, "We
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sleep in peace and we wake in joy, and we live in
God. God gives his beloved in sleep."
The above prayer, recited regularly, systematically, and
persistently by parents in the presence of their children will
resurrect and activate these truths lodged in the subconscious
of all. Children brought up in this spiritual radiance will grow
in wisdom, truth, and beauty, and will prove the age-old
dictum that the only reason for our existence is to glorify
God and enjoy Him forever.
POINTS TO REMEMBER
l . Every child needs discipline and correction. You
must express your disapproval when he doesn't
conform to universally accepted standards in the
home, school, or wherever he may be. There is no
love without discipline and no discipline without
love.
2. The word "hate" in the Bible means to reject
completely and emphatically the negatives of life,
such as lying, disorderly conduct, stealing, etc. In
other words, you never condone that which is
wrong. You must see to it that the child learns his
lesson, and when he does, he will not be a repeater.
3. Wisdom is justified of her children. There are
"children" also, such as books, plays, paintings,
songs, etc. All these reflect the state of mind of the
creative individual.
4. When a child is taught the real meaning of the Ten
Commandments and the Golden Rule, he will incor­
porate these truths into his mentality and reveal
Divine law and order in his life.
5 . A child left to wander off without spiritual instruc­
tion will grow up confused and truculent.
6. Children justify the wisdom of their parents. This
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8.
9.
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means that the children reflect accurately the wise
indoctrination of their parents.
Children know when they deserve punishment ; they
know they had it coming. A father who disciplines
his son is actually revealing his love for him, as he
shows his interest in his future and in his welfare.
As parents regularly identify with the God-Presence
in the child and claim that the wisdom, intelligence,
and harmony of God are being expressed by the
child, such a child will grow in grace, beauty, and
wisdom in perception.
Permissive parents who are negligent an d careless
and don't control, direct, and make certain require­
ments of their children through psychic perception
have children who lack self-confidence, security,
self-control, and who are also selfish.
Parents who are quarreling and generally exhibiting
hostility to each other communicate subconsciously
these negative vibrations to their children, which
disturb them and cause them to feel they are not
loved or appreciated. Furthermore, they become
fearful of a broken home and lose that sense of
security so needed in their formative years. Some­
times they show their retaliation in acts of stealing,
poor study records, indifference, and a generally
rebellious attitµde.
Children at an early age can begin to perceive and
understand God. You can point out that God is
their mind, their life, and that this Presence watches
over them as they sleep ; that It heals, inspires and
guides them in their studies. The little boy or girl
can understand that he or she can't see the wind,
but can feel the breeze upon the face; likewise, he
or she can feel love, joy, and laughter, all of which
are of God.
Boys and girls going to school can get acquainted
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with the Infinite Intelligence within them by
affirming for five or six minutes every night: " Infi­
nite Intelligence guides me in my studies, and I have
a perfect memory for everything I need to know at
all times. I p ass all examinations in Divine order."
They will experience the result of what they sow in
their mind. This is one way of getting acquainted
with the God-Presence within them.
1 3. A young girl of 1 2 talks with psychic perception to
God and requests that He guide her in her studies,
and she goes ahead by leaps and bounds.
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How to Let Psychic Perception
Make Your Desires Come True
I t is all right to have a dream, an ideal, or a goal, but
you must have a solid foundation under your aspirations;
otherwise they become idle fantasy, which wastes your .
energy and debilitates your entire organism. There are many
men and women who do not know where they are going and
who have not risen above their childhood dreams. Somehow
their fantasies become enmeshed and confused with reality,
and they have difficulty in differentiating one from the
other. Hence their need for using their psychic perception.
How She Made Her Dream a Reality
by Calling on Her Subconscious Mind
Some months ago, I interviewed a young woman in Las
Vegas, Nevada. On my return to that city, where I am writing
this chapter, she visited me to tell me how she had made her
dream come true.
On her first interview with me, she said that she was
constantly daydreaming about being a movie star, with valets,
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servants, limousines, maids, and butlers at her command. Yet
she admitted she had no talents along the line of acting. She
was emotionally immature and had simply carried over into
her adult life a childish image of being a famous movie
princess. She had had numerous affairs with men, each of
whom had promised her a movie career, but she inevitably
discovered that they were simply using her, which resulted in
frustration and complete disillusionment on her part.
I suggested that she now use constructively the talents
she had. She could type very well. Also, her ability at
shorthand was excellent. I pointed out to her at that first
interview that she should come down to earth and be
practical and cease dwelling in marble mansions in the sky. I
suggested that she affirm as follows : "Infinite Intelligence
opens up the perfect door for my full expression, where I am
giving of my talents in a wonderful way and I am Divinely
compensated. I claim I am wanted, needed, loved, and
cherished by a wonderful husband, and I contribute to his
success and happiness in a wonderful way ." I explained to
her that as she repeated these affirmations, they would sink
down into her subconscious mind, and the deeper currents of
her subconscious would bring her desires to pass.
A Clear-Cut Lead Came into Her Mind
Su bsequently , this young lady attended a social gather­
ing in Las Vegas and there met a professor of English, who
asked her to become his secretary. She is now married to him
and is extremely happy. The lead that came to her was a
deep, almost compelling psychic impulse to attend the social
function for which she had previously turned down an
invitation. The wisdom of her subconscious percep tive mind
'
knew how to fulfill her dreams and bring them to pass . She is
no longer building castles in the air. She knows how to
construct a foundation under them.
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How Dave Built a Solid Foundation
Today
I had dinner with an old friend, Dave, who
directs. a most progressive and enlightened congregation. One
Sunday morning many years ago, Dave came to one of my
lectures
at
became
intensely
the
Wilshire Ebell Theatre,
interested
Los Angeles. He
in the teaching and shortly
thereafter became chief usher in the organization where he.
remained for many years. Dave had been in the musical
theatrical field and had degrees along these lines, but he was
dissatisfied and frustrated in his efforts to rise above just
making ends meet.
I suggested to Dave that inasmuch as he was wildly
enthusiastic about the inner meaning of the Bible and the
workings of the subconscious mind,
'I believed he would be a
tremendous success in the ministerial field. This idea rang a
bell in Dave's subjective mind, and he took the five years of
gious Science.
training necessary to become a minister of Reli
He became an instantaneous success for the simple reason
that he is now doing what he loves to do and is Divinely
happy and Divinely prospered. He fell heir to one of the most
beautiful churches in the state, following the resignation of
its chief pastor. He now conducts youth programs, Science
of Mind classes twice weekly, and Sunday morning lectures.
His organization is growing by leaps and bounds.
He told me that he has never been so happy in his life,
and he is extraordinarily successful in his work in Las Vegas.
His Foundation Technique
During his ministerial training, every night prior to sleep
he would sit still, immobilize his attention, and imagine that
he was standing on a pulpit expounding the great truths of
God to an imaginary audience. He felt the reality of this so
"I am
I will have my own church and be
the pastor. I sense it, feel it, and in a vision I have seen the
much that before he was ordained, he said to me,
absolutely convinced that
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church and congregation about 1 00 times." And all this came
to pass, thus proving what Thoreau had said many years ago:
"If any man will hold a picture in his mind of doing what he
wants
to
do
and
will
sustain
that
mental
picture, the
God-Power will develop it and bring it to pass."
You, too, can build a real solid foundation under your
heart's d esire. Dave said to me today that he stresses to his
own students that their castles in the air without a basic
knowledge of the powers of the subconscious to bring them
into being are as unsubstantial as whiffs of smoke.
His Reversed Attitude in Perception Brought Him
Assets of a Quarter of a Million Dollars
I had a most interesting session with a man whom we
shall call Mr. X, who has been phoning and corresponding
with me for some time. I gave him spiritual advice over the
phone, and the following is the history of the case. He is the
son of a very wealthy father in the East, who had been very
cruel and autocratic, insisting that the son come up to his
standards in the business. This young man had a neurotic
hatred for his father and began to strike back by writing
vitriolic articles about big business; moreover, he went back
East and lectured on the values of a communistic society to a
club to which his father belonged, knowing that this would
infuriate his father. His desire, as he said, was to strike back
at his father. In the meantime, because of this emotional
hostility and suppressed rage , plus his sense of guilt, he began
to drink excessively, becoming an inebriate, or compulsive
drinker. He also developed ulcers and high blood pressure;
and, as if that were not
enough, he was on the verge of
bankruptcy.
My explanation (over the phone) of the reason for his
actions supplied 75 percent of his cure. He realized that he
was being emotionally immature and was consuming alcohol
to assuage his sense of guilt just as someone else would take
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aspirin for a headache. Actually, it suddenly dawned on him
that he was literally destroying himself by attempting to hit
back at his father's ideals and policies. He decided to reverse
his attitude by following the technique of scientific prayer.
He affirmed out loud frequently during the day : "I
surrender my father to God. I release him completely and
wish for him health, peace, success, and all the b lessings of
life. Whenever I think of him, I will affirm at once, 'I have
released you. God's peace fills your soul.' I am Divinely
guided. Divine law and order govern me. Divine love and
Divine peace saturate my soul. My food and drink are God's
ideas,
which
constantly
unfold
within
me,
bringing me
harmony, health, and peace. God thinks, speaks and acts
through me, and I am Divinely expressed and fulfilled in all
ways. "
H e repeated these truths frequently out loud, which
prevented his mind from wandering. Whenever any negative
thoughts came to his mind, he would affirm : "God loves me
and cares for me." After a few weeks, he became a con­
structive thinker.
His "Movie" Technique
Every night for about ten minutes in a perfectly relaxed
state, he imagined I ms in front of him congratulating him
on his freedom from alcohol, and whenever the shakes and
the jitters seized him with the craving for another drink, he
would cause to flash in his mind the mental movie, knowing
there was an Almighty Power backing him up. It was only a
matter of a few weeks until he was completely free from the
curse of compulsive
drinking.
His new attitude changed
everything. Today, three months later, at dinner with me in
Las Vegas, he told me his business has prospered so w ell h at
his assets are worth over $ 200,000. His psychic perception
had enabled him to make the correct ana shrewd decisions
necessary in accumulating a fortune.
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His Facial Tic Was Ruining His Career
During a trip to Mexico and its famous pyramids, I met
a minister who had a pronounced facial tic which was very
aggravating and humiliating to him. He hacl received alcoholic
inj ections, which were supposed to deaden or paralyze the
nerve, but after some months the tic flared up again. The
condition became very acute when he spoke before his
congregation or other social gatherings. He had reached the
point where he was actually contemplating resigning because
of the comments of the people and his own sense of
embarrassment.
After a prolonged discussion, however, I remarked that I
had a deep inner feeling that he had a pronounced sense of
hurt plus a guilt complex which he was un willing to face
·
subjectively and obj ectively. This tic condition was affecting
his right eye, which could possibly symbolize something he
did not want to look at in his home or office ; there was some
reason why his subconscious was selecting his face and his
right eye as a scapegoat. This situation needed his psychic
perception to recognize how to deal with it.
He admitted freely- that he no longer believed in what he
was teaching, which gave him a guilt complex ; moreover, he
was afraid to resign because he felt he could not make a living
outside the ministry. He deeply resented members of his
board, who critici,ied whenever he deviated from the ortho­
dox standard of teaching. All this nervous pressure was
converted by his subconscious mind into a tic. The affliction
compensated him in a morbid way for his failure to be honest
and forthright and admit to his congregation that he no
longer believed according to the directives and dogma of the
church.
He freely admitted all this to me, and I suggested to him
in turn that on the following Sunday when he returned from
his vacation he should speak freely from the platform and tell
his congregation that he was resigning, since he no longer
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believed what he was preaching. He understood that to teach
one thing and to believe another created a powerful negative
conflict in his mind, resulting in mental and physical disor­
der.
He spoke from the depths of his heart to his congrega­
tion and then resigned. I n a letter to me he said, " I felt a
tremendous relief and a great sense of peace came over me.
My constant affirmation was, 'Thou wilt show me the path of
life,' and one of my forn:ier board members gave me a
position as personnel director for his organization, where I
am happy." He added, "What you said is true. Oftentimes the
explanation is the cure."
If you have a problem, mental, physical, or emotional,
ask yourself: "What am I turning away from? What is it I
don't want to face? Am I hiding my resentment and hostility
to someone?" Face the problem and solve it with psychic
perception, dissolve it in the light of God's love.
She Didn't Have to Be Lonely
I once conducted a seminar at sea on the ship Princess
Carla, which visited several ports in Mexico. I also c.o nducted
daily lectures and personal interviews. A young woman from
New York City, although not a member of our seminar,
interviewed me because she had read The Po wer of Your
Su bconscious Mind. * The substance of her conversation was
that she was always attracting the wrong men. They were
either alcoholics, married, or individuals suffering from sex
deviation complexes. She was somewhat withdrawn, hostile,
and on the defensive. I asked her a very simple question:
"What's eating you inside?" adding that is what the Kahuna
(a Hawaiian priest) always asks a person who visits him for a
healing. She blurted out, "I hate my mother. When my
*Dr. Joseph Murphy, The Power of Your Subconscious Mind (Englewood Cliffs,
N.J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1963).
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brother died of scarlet fever, my mother said to me, 'Why
wasn't it you?' "
This was a terrific shock to the impressionable mind of a
1 3-year-old girl. Undoubtedly the mother in the anguish of
grief didn't really mean what she said when she reproached
the girl because she, the only daughter, lived instead of her
brother. This young lady, very attractive and charming, had
met many men on the cruise but was very critical of every
one of them. She had what you might call a rejection
complex , as she lived in the fear that she could not be loved.
She expected to be rejected, not realizing that what she
feared would always be made manifest. Underneath she was
hungry for companionship and wanted passionately to be
appreciated, wanted, and loved. Her subconscious conflict
stemmed back to her mother's critical remark, "Why wasn't
it you?"
We had a long chat in my cabin on the ship and I
pointed out to her that the past was dead and that nothing
mattered but this moment ; that all she had to do was to
change her present thoughts and keep them changed, and her
future would be a perfect projection of her new habitual
thinking, based on the premise that what · we sow in the
garden of our mind, so shall we reap in our e xperience.
Accordingly, I outlined a pattern of affirmations for her,
explaining to · her that she must never deny what she
affirmed. The affumation was as follows:
I know that the past is dead, and all I have to
do is to fill my subconscious mind with life-giving
patterns of thought , and all the negative and
traumatic hurts of the past will be obliterated. I
claim now that Infinite Intelligence is guiding and
directing me, and that Divine love fills my soul. I
am inspired and illumined, and my hidden talents
are revealed to me. I radiate love, peace, and
goodwill to all men and women. I have much to
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give to man. I am honest, sincere ; I appreciate a
lovely home. I can cherish, love, and admire a man
who has a reverence for things Divine. I love a
beautiful home, I am economical and I can con­
tribute in a wonderful way to a man who is also
loving, kind, and peaceful. Whenever I think of m y
mother,
I
bless her.
She i s n o w i n the next
dimension of life and I claim her journey is ever
onward, upward, and Godward. I forgive myself
for harboring resentful thoughts, and I know God
loves me and cares for me. Whenever I am prone to
criticize myself, I will immediately affirm, 'God
loves me and cares for me.'
I was pleasantly surpised when this young lady came .to
my lecture a few Sundays ago and introduced me to her
husband, a retired captain of the British Navy. They are
extremely happy and are now on a world cruise, which will
last about eight months. She had absorbed these truths we
discussed in her subconscious mind. As she said, it was one
hour of perception that transformed her life. It is true that
you can be changed in the twinkling of an eye.
POINTS TO REMEMBER
1 . It is all right to have a dream, but you must have a
solid psychic foundation under the dream; otherwise,
it becomes but idle fantasy.
2. Learn what your talents are now, face yourself as to
your present capabilities, and start from there; then
realize that you are Divinely guided to your true
expression and Divinely compensated in a wonderful
way. The answer will come from your subconscious
mind, and you will recognize the lead, which comes
to you clearly and distinctly.
3. If you hold a picture in your mind of what you want
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to be and dramatize it in your imagination, knowing
that your subconscious mind will develop it and
bring it to pass, and as you remain faithful to this
mental picture, the way will open up and you will
become that which you imagined and felt as true.
4. You actually tend to destroy yourself physically and
mentally by striking back at others or by seeking
revenge.
The answer is to release them to God,
wishing for them all the blessings of life. If you are
an alcoholic, forgive yourself for harboring negative
thoughts and imagine some friend congratulating you
on your freedom and peace of mind. As you con­
tinue to proj ect this mental movie, your subcon­
scious will take over and compel you to lose all
desire
or
craving for alcohol.
subconscious
is
compulsion,
The
and
law of your
whatever
you
impress upon it is expressed. You can control its
compulsions with your psychic perception.
5. A facial tic can be due to a deep-seated resentment
plus a guilt complex and an unwillingness to face the
conflict boldly and overcome it. The thing to do is to
face it objectively with psychic perception in your
own mind and be honest with yourself by refusing to
believe and teach what you know and feel in your
heart is not true. Claim that Infinite Intelligence
within you opens up a new door of expression for
you, and It will respond to you in Divine order, and
a desired healing will follow.
6. When a woman hates her mother and dwells on old
hurts and psychic traumas, she will attract to herself
the wrong type of men, based on the law that like
attracts like. The thing for her to do is to realize that
the past is dead; nothing lives but this moment. As
she changes her present thought, she will change the
future, since her future is her present thoughts made
manifest.
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Emerson said, "There is one mind common to all
individual men . Every man is an inlet to the same and to all
of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is
made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has taught,
he may think ; what a saint has felt, he may feel ; what at any
time has befallen man, he can understand. Who hath access to
this universal mind is a party to all that is or can be done, for
this is the only and sovereign agent."
This means that your subconscious mind, which is one
with the universal subj ective mind of the entire human race,
possesses a memory of everything that has ever transpired in
the evolution of man, both physiologically and mentally. All
the languages ever spoken, all the music of the world, plus
the discoveries, inventions, and experiences of all men are
registered indelibly and infallibly in your subconscious mind.
This chapter will discuss psychic perception of this store­
house of human experience.
Your Subconscious Reasons Deductively Only
Your subconscious does not argue controversially. It
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accepts the premise (true or false) given it by your conscious
mind
and
reasons
deductively
from that premise to all
legitimate inferences, with a marvelous clarity �nd accuracy.
An Interesting Hypnotic Experiment
Regarding Past Lives
Some time ago I witnessed an experiment conducted by
a friend of mine on a man we will call Mr. X. He was a
Roman Catholic and disbelieved violently in reincarnation;
however, the psychologist said to him that if he put him into
a trance, he would tape his answers and prove to him that he
had had many past lives. In the hypnotic state, the psycholo­
gist suggested to Mr. X that he was now taking him back 5 00
years ago, and Mr. X was to inform him who he was, where
he was living, and what he was doing. There was no response.
The psychologist then said, "It is 1 ,000 years ago . Who are
you? What's your name?" There was no reply. Then in
desperation the psychologist said to Mr. X, "I am now
regressing you way back, long before England or Ireland were
ever heard of-way, way back. Who are you?"
There was silence for about a minute , then Mr. X said,
"On the seventh day I rested. "
This ended the hypnotic experiment o n reincarnation
with Mr. X.
The Reason for the Failure
It is generally true that in the hypnotic trance state, you
will always give the operator what he wants ; i . e . , you will
cooperate with him. Assuming the correctness of the premise,
whether true or false, your subconscious, being amenable to
suggestion, will give the operator what seems to be a logical
conclusion. In this instance, Mr. X suggested to his subcon­
scious prior to the sleep state, "I do not believe. I do not
believe in reincarnation. I will give no response." His subcon­
scious mind accepted the dominant suggestion, which was
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that of Mr. X. Remember, your subconscious mind accepts
the dominant of two ideas. Mr. X neutralized the suggestion
of the operator, and you can see the humor of the response
by Mr. X to the third question of the psychologist.
An Experiment with Mr. X's Sister
Mr. X's sister gave no contrary suggestion to her subcon­
scious
prior
to
the
trance state,
and
the
psychologist
regressed her into different periods of history. She claimed to
be Joan of Arc and spoke French in the trance state. At
another time she was a princess in Egypt and launched out
into a religious disquisition of religious beliefs in Egypt. She
claimed that the pyramids were built by men who went into
a semi-trance and lifted all the stones by the power of mind,
cut them, and fitted them into place ; that all this was
accomplished without the sound of hammers or other metal
tools ; that mind did all these things.
There was, of course, no way of proving that she was a
princess or J oan of Arc. After talking to her, I learned she
had studied French for four years and had also lived in
France. Furthermore, she also had visited Egypt and had
studied the pyramids and Egyptian history. I n the trance
state, her subconscious mind, in response to the suggestion
by the operator, dramatized a sort of composite of what she
had read and studied.
It could be called a fictionalized
presentation, and her conclusions were syllogistically correct;
that is, they were logically deducible from the premise of the
psychologist that she had lived before and would tell us
about it.
She accepted this suggestion, which became her major
premise ; whatever there was within the range of her own
knowledge or experience, whatever she had seen, read, heard,
or visited which tended to illustrate the idea in any way, was
utilized by her subconscious. At the same time, her subcon­
scious became totally oblivious to all facts or ideas which did
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not conform and which were not in accord with the opera­
tor's suggestion. Inductive reasoning is not a quality of the
subconscious mind.
Have You Lived Before?
One of the most interesting factors discussed by many
people is that they claim to remember their previous incarna­
tions ; furthermore, in remarkable detail some say they were
priests in ancient temples, · giving the period, location, and
other interesting highlights. There is no doubt that some
people seem to remember previous existences. They relate
that the only way such memories can be explained is that
they have actually lived before.
We are all immersed in a great pool of mind. Dr. Phineas
Parkhurst Quimby said, "Our minds mingle like atmos­
pheres. " Your mind is a great reservoir containing the mental
experiences and reactions of the ages. It is possible for a
clairvoyant or other psychic to look back in time and see
George Washington kneeling on the snow, but it does not
mean that she is an incarnation of George Washington. It
simply means that she tuned in on the mental picture or
vibration, which is forever embodied in the universal screen
of the universal subjective mind. All things co-exist in the
mind-principle as an eternal now.
Important Points to Recall
Consider the fact that the sensory impressions of all
men who ever lived are within you. You can easily tune in to
the vibration of some previous experience which someone
else had and think it is your own. The Life-Principle within
you was never born and will never die. This Life-Principle in
you, which is Infinite Spirit and Infinite Mind, has played all
roles, created all countries, has been everywhere, has seen
everything, and experienced all things. Think clearly and you
will perceive through psychic perception that the One Mind
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operating through man wrote all Bibles and all books, and
established all religions. That One Mind is within you, and
this is why there are men and women not only in India and
Tibet, but in other countries as well who do not have to
travel to any part of the world to describe it in detail. Many
clairvoyants are able to do this; yet the faculties of clair­
voyance and clairaudience are within you an d all men.
The Psychological Explanation of
Having Been There Before
Once I took a trip to Pondicherry in India. On arrival, I
knew my way around. All the streets, buildings, and the
market place were familiar to me. When I heard people speak,
I said to myself, "I have heard these voices before." Let us
look at this experience from the standpoint of the subcon­
scious mind. Knowing that I was to visit Pondicherry, my
subj ective self traveled there while I was sound asleep. You
could call this extrasensory travel, yet your subconscious is
omnipresent, transcending time and space. While consciously
asleep, I conversed mentally with many people, h�ard their
responses
and
voices; furthermore, in that psychological
journey, I saw all the beauties of the countryside.
I had been visualizing a wonderful trip, impressed this
on my subconscious mind, and "went to sleep on it." My
subconscious
accepted
the
suggestion
and
dwelt
there
psychologically . When I consciously and objectively arrived
there, I experienced all the subjective states. What I saw and
heard obj ectively, I had seen and heard subj ectively. Of
course, I had heard that voice before and had seen that place
before! The real truth is that no one, no matter who he is,
can go any place, hear anything, or experience anything that
does not already exist within him. Why is this? Because Infi­
. nite Mind is within him. Infinite Spirit or Infinite Mind does
not have to travel, to learn anything, to experience anything,
or to grow, expand, or contract. It is all there is. All things
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subsist now in the Infinite. It is the Ever-Living One, the
All-Wise One, and the All-Knowing One.
Why You May Say, "It Seems I Have
Always Known Him"
You may meet a man whom you are convinced you
have always known. The reason is that he is an intimate of
your mood. All tones are within you, just as countless notes
and tones are in the pian o ; the tone you strike always was.
When you say that you remember having lived in a certain
city before and that everything seems familiar to you, it is
quite possible that you had visited the place in the dream
state, which you may have forgotten. But your subconscious
or psychic mind forgets nothing; it registers and records all
your experiences indelibly and infallibly. Your experience
could also mean that you are awakening to that which was
always known and which always existed within you. Remem­
ber, God-the Life-Principle-is within you. This Presence
created all things. As you begin to awaken to the Divinity
which shapes your ends, you will begin to realize that the
whole world and all creation and experiences of the race are,
therefore, within you.
Why Is It Possible to Remember
Anything That Has Ever Transpired?
Of one thing you may be certain : It is p ossible to
remember anything that has ever transpired on this planet. It
is also p ossible to see what might happen in the future except
it is changed through prayer. The real truth about you is this:
The I AM-ness within you is your own consciousness or
awareness. The Bible, in the Third Chapter of Exodus, called
the name (nature) of God, I AM, which means Pure Being,
Life, Spirit, Self-Originating Intelligence, Reality, or Pure
Awareness. In other words, God indwells you, and when you
say, "I AM," you are announcing the Presence of God within
you
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Th erefore, when you do a little deep thinking, you will
realize that the Infinite Spirit, or Infinite Mind within you,
has been all men who ever lived, who live now, or whoever
will live. This Mind-Principle within you has been Buddha,
Jesus, Moses, Socrates, Lincoln, Shakespeare, etc. Your
Awareness or Spirit has played all roles. It has been every­
where. It has seen everything. All is within It. Even the
whole universe came out of your own I AM-ness.
The Infinite Mind operating in all men wrote all Bibles,
spoke all languages, built all pyramids, wrote all books ;
therefore, you often read of many men throughout the world
who, though poorly educated, but in a trance, state they
speak 1 2 or 1 3 languages.
There Is Only One B eing or Life-Principle
The One Being-faceless, formless, and timeless-indivi­
dualizes in the form of man. All men are extensions of
yourself, because there is only one mind. Each may condition
it differently, but it is the one mind common to all individual
men. The Life of you is One and Indivisible. It w ears many
garments. The word "humanity" means the One Being,
limiting Himself by appearing as many and in human form.
Where Did You Come from Before You Were B orn?
Always remember it is God coming into the world when
a child is born. It is the Universal becoming the particular, or
the Invisible becoming visible. You are the individualized
expression of God. The Psalmist says, It is He that hath made
us (Psalm 1 00). All of us have a common Father, a common
Progenitor, the Life-Principle. It is called by many names;
such as Allah, Brahma, Reality, Life, Being, Awareness,
Consciousness, Living Spirit Almighty, and Self-Originating
Spirit. The Bible tells you where you were before you
appeared on this planet : Thou hast been in Eden, the garden
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of God; every precious stone was thy co vering (Ezekiel
28 : 1 3).
Eden from a spiritual standpoint is a place of boundless
bliss, indescribable beauty, and absolute peace. In other
words, you came forth from God, the Boundless One, where
you lived in fullness of joy, boundless love, all p erfection,
and harmony. These qualities of God are the precious stones
which covered you. I n other words, you were this Being
living in the absolute state, and when your father and mother
copulated and the ovum was fertilized, the Spirit entered in
and was conditioned by the genetic record and the mood,
mental attitude, and temperament of your parents. When you
came forth, it was God being born and assuming the form of
a child. The Bible says, Before A braham was, I am (John
8 : 5 8). This means the same thing; i.e., before any manifesta­
tion or form appears, it first comes out of the invisible- the /
AM, the Living Spirit Almighty.
Why Is an Innocent Child Born Deaf,
Lame, Blind, or Crippled?
You might well ask why a healthy , vital, robust man
becomes blind, deaf, tubercular, crippled with arthritis, or
turns paranoiac or psychotic. The answer is: There is one
universal law which cannot be broken. If the man hates the
sight of someone, or if he is full of resentment, jealousy,
vengeance, or hostility, all these generate destructive emo­
tions which bring on all manner of functional impairments
and diseases. There is not one law for a child and another for
a man of 8 0 or 90. We are all under the same law as the child
in the womb or the cradle. The Bible says: Except ye repent,
ye shall all like wise perish ( Luke 1 3 : 3) . This means we are all
immersed in the mass mind or the law of averages. Negative
suggestions of the mass mind are continually impinging upon
our mentality. Our mind receives according to our degree of
receptivity. We can guard against negative circumstances
through our psychic perception.
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Reincarnation and Time Cycles
When a child is born, it is the Infinite Spirit assuming
the form of that child. The personality-John or Mary-is the
sum of the thoughts, feelings, and beliefs of each one of us.
We tincture and color and modify the one Spirit by our
beliefs, impressions, and conditioning.
Let us say that John, who lived in New York, passed on
to the next dimension ; the quality which was John lives in all
beings throughout the world. Now, during a copulative act in
some part of the globe, the tone or quality that was John is
struck; this could be in China or Japan or elsewhere, and that
quality or mood of the Infinite comes forth. It is not the
personality we knew as John coming back ; it is the tone of
the Infinite coming forth.
The same instant that John died, instantaneously the
same vibration could come forth in a member of another race
and country. Cycles of 5 00, 600, and 1 ,000 years have
nothing to do with thls law. The Life-Principle is timeless; all
tones are in the One. When you play on the grand piano, it
will respond according to the notes you strike.
Man is the measurer, and . . . with what measure ye
mete, it shall be measured to you again (Matthew 7 : 2). For
whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap (Galatians
6: 7). You sow the seed in mind, and you reap the fruit of the
seed; it will be the exact likeness of the seed sown.
It is definitely wrong to believe that you or anybody
else is suffering because of the errors made in "past reincarna­
tions."
You Are What You Think All Day Long
-
If you do not think for yourself, and if you do not
cleanse your mind, you will suffer, because you have allowed
fear, false beliefs, and erroneous concepts of the world to
impinge themselves upon you. Then you are allowing the
world-mind to do your thlnking for you, thereby bringing
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about accidents, sickness, sufferings, and traged ies o f all
kinds. The mass mind or the world-mind is the mind which
believes in disease, sickness, misfortune , accidents, and super­
stitious beliefs o f all kinds, hence the importance of cleansing
our minds and keeping prayed up. There is no chance or
accident, for all is law. There is a state of mind, a mental
attitude, which is the cause of all.
You Are Here to Learn the Laws of Life
Suppose you put your hand on a naked electric wire.
You would get burned or electrocuted. Why blame the law of
electricity? Learn how the principle o f electricity works and
you can use it to bless yourself and others. The burn or the
hurt you received was due to misuse or ignorance of the law.
It would be foolish to say God was punishing you or that it
was due to your karma (sins of a former life).
Suppose you j umped into the ocean and did not know
how to swim. You would drown. You would not attribute it
to a vindictive deity who is punishing you ; rather, it would be
due to your lack of knowledge as to how to keep afloat. The
waters will hold up a boat or any man who learns how to
swim or navigate.
You
can
fall o ff a cliff because of carelessness in
climbing or through paying no attention to the instructor
who is teaching you how to climb the mountain. The law of
gravity is impersonal, without rancor or vindictiveness.
Why Do Babies and Young Children Meet
with Sickness, Accidents, and Tragedies?
It is true that very young children do not think or
reason until they reach a certain age ; they are at the mercy of
the moods, feelings, and atmosphere of the parents. Dr.
Phineas Parkhurst Quimby
1 00 years ago pointed out that
young children are like a white tablet on which all members.
of the family and relatives write something. The child's mind
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is highly impressionable, and it cannot reject the negative
suggestions, fears, and anxieties of the parents. Naturally, it is
susceptible to this emotional accent and reacts accordingly.
This is psychic transmission affecting lives of o thers.
Psychosomatic physicians and psychiatrists are all fami­
liar with the fact that children, until they begin to reason for
themselves and pray scientifically, grow in the image and
likeness of the mental and emotional atmosphere of the
home. A careful degree of psychic perception can control the
children's beneficial development.
The Law of Mind Is Good and Very Good
The law of mind is always just and eminently fair. If
you hold up a horrible painting in front of a mirror, it will
reflect exactly the picture held before it. Your mind is a
mirror for the king and the beggar, and it always reflects
mathematically and accurately the contents of your mental­
ity. This is why the law is called good and very good. The
ancient Hebrews said that the law of the Lord is perfect. It
plays no tricks upon you, and that is why when you think
good, good follows. Accordingly, your psychic perception
can control the physical manifestation of your thoughts.
She Said She Choked People in a Former Life
While I was talking with a woman in Las Vegas whom
we will call Mrs. B . , she revealed that she had been suffering
from asthmatic attacks for ten years and was using medica­
tion and injections occasionally without adequate relief. She
had a "life reading" by a woman in Reno, who regressed her
back about 200 years, and in the trance state she told the
operator that she had choked prisoners in China during a
rebellion in the Canton Province.
The Explanation
I explained to her in terms of psychic perception that
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the
Spirit,
or God,
within
her never punishes ; that all
judgment is given to the son, meaning her own mind; and
that she was punishing herself due to her guilt complex. I also
pointed out that the operator who regressed her in the
hypnotic state was guilty of imaginative folderol, too absurd
for words.
During the colloquy, she mentioned that her mother
had died from an acute attack of asthma; and furthermore,
she added that she was not on speaking terms with her
mother at the time of the latter's transition. I said to her,
"Your asthma is due to your deep-seated guilt an d remorse
over the way you treated your mother, and you took on all
the symptoms of your mother's asthmatic attacks in order to
punish yourself."
Mrs. B j oined with me in prayer for her mother, and she
released her mother, wishing for her love, light, truth, beauty,
joy, and happiness. She poured outlove and goodwill to her
mother and forgave herself for thinking negatively and ceased
all self-condemnation. She used the following Biblical verses
with remarkable healing results in adj usting her sense of
psychic perception :
Come now, an d let us reason together, saith the
Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be
white as snow; though they be red like crimson,
they shall be as wool (Isaiah 1 : 1 8).
And their sins an d iniquities will I remember no
more (Hebrews 1 0 : 1 7).
For thou, Lord, art good, an d ready to forgive; and
plenteous in mercy un to all them that call upon
thee (Psalm 8 6 : 5).
He shall call upon me and I will answer him (Psalm
9 1 : 1 5).
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I, even I, am he that blotteth o u t thy trangres­
sions for mine own sake, and will not remember
thy sins (Isaiah 43 : 25).
Mrs. B began to dwell on these age-old Biblical truths
and continued to pour out love on her mother. At the end of
a few weeks, the attacks ceased and she became free. M rs. B
realizes now that there is no time or space in mind or Spirit,
and that the past is dead. Nothing matters but this moment.
As she changed her thoughts and kept them changed , the past
was forgotten and remembered no more.
Why Some Children Are Born Blind, Deaf,
and Deformed and Others Are Born Healthy
This question was asked 2,000 years ago. And his disci­
ples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin , this man, or his
paren ts, that he was born blin d? Jesus answered, Neither hath
this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God
should be made manifest in him . . . And said unto him, Go,
wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by in terpretation,
Sen t. ) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came
seeing. (John 9 : 2, 3, 7).
The question asked Jesus implied that the disciples
believed that this man must have been a sinner in a former
life ; this belief was a part of the tradition at that time and
had permeated much of the Eastern world. People also
believed that the sins of the parents were communicated to
the children. In other words, if a father were tube rcular, his
children would be also; if the father or mother were lame, the
children would be, too. Jesus rejected completely both
theories or beliefs, and turned to the Spiritual Power; he
healed the man instantaneously. You should take particular
notice that Jesus completely ignored this statement, which is
the ideal way to treat a falsehood or fallacy.
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What Is the Law of Averages?
All of us are born into the race mind, sometimes called
the mass mind or the law of averages. We are subj ect to the
beliefs, opinions, and conditioning of our parents and our
environment.
perception
As
we
we learn the laws of mind in psychic
rise
above the
mass mind and transcend
environmental conditioning and limitation. Jesus did not say
to the blind man, "You are a sinner. You sinned in a former
life and you must expiate for it now." No, he turned to the
God-Power and his conviction of the Infinite Healing Pres­
ence healed the blind man. God-the Absolute Being or
Life-Principle-condemns or punishes no man. Though a man
be a cripple, he can be healed; if he is deaf, he can be healed;
he is not a victim of some karma, which is an Oriental belief
that our limitations and handicaps at birth are due to sins
committed in a former life, which is called our karmic debt,
and that we are now expiating for these errors or crimes.
The Mystery of Child Prodigies
One thing you must remember is that everything that
has ever happened to mankind as a whole is recorded in the
collective
subconscious
or
unconscious · of the race.
For
example, the genetic history of all men and women who have
ever lived is also registered in that universal subconscious
mind. As an illustration, an English officer in the First World
War was in charge of a Scottish battalion which had suffered
severe reverses. Suddenly he said, "I had an intense urge to ·
lead them, and I began to talk to them in their own Highland
Gaelic tongue. I felt I was somebody else and on a different
battlefield doing the same thing as I had done before. " He
checked later on his ancestry, and he discovered a great
grandfather who was a Scots Highlander and a captain in a
Scottish regiment.
Biologists and geneticists have a ready explanation for
that.
He was under great stress and anxiety and sought
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desperately the best way to kindle a fire in the battalion, and
his subconscious triggered a sudden recall of a genetic
memory with a past scene of a similar nature, which brought
about the feeling that he had experienced the same situation
before. The genetic record of the entire race is within us.
Scientists tell us that the genes of three billion people on this
planet would not even fill up a thimble.
Look Back at Your Ancestry
You were a boy who had a father, who was a boy who
had a father, who was a boy who had a father. Keep on going
back and you will realize the genetic record and experiences
of the entire race are within you. Keep going back and you
will arrive at the primordial cell from which all of us
originated , and the primordial cell originated with God-the
Father and Progenitor of all life on earth. We are all
intimately related and actually we are all brothers and sisters,
having one common Father. This fact we can reasonably deal
with through psychic perception.
A New Beginning Is a New End
In a lecture some time ago, I mentioned that I did not
go along with the modern idea of reincarnation, which states
that a person who is born deformed, crippled, blind, deaf, or
with some other congenital defect has committed some crime
or inflicted some injustice on others in a former life; that
karmic punishment accounts for his imperfect condition-Le. ,
he is paying the penalty for his sinful acts in an earlier
existence; that he must come back again and again until he
makes atonement or Divine adjustment, and then he will be
freed from the so-called wheel of karma.
Ail this does not hold water when you realize that no
matter what your condition or circumstances are, when you
begin to fill your subconscious mind with life-giving p atterns
and align yourself mentally with the Infinite Love, Infinite
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Life, and Infinite Healing Presence, the negative patterns of
your subconscious are obliterated and the past is forgotten
and remembered no more. All this can be done with psychic
perception. A new beginning is a new end, for the beginning
and the end are the same.
Your Genetic Record
A woman who thought her child was a reincarnation of
Paderewski began to realize that while she and her husband
and the grandparents of the boy had no musical talent of any
kind and were not particularly interested in music, the boy's
great grandfather had been a musician in Hungary. It is
reasonable to assume that the boy (their son) was born with
the genes and genetic memories of his great grandfather,
which were dominant, rather than those of his parents.
I explained to this woman that there could be five
members of a family and one member may be entirely
different in every way from that of his parents, brothers, or
sisters. He is as far apart as the poles. This is explained by
biologists as biological mutation, which is a basic alteration in
his chromosome structure. The precocious child may also
have clairvoyant and clairaudient faculties functioning, which
are inherent in all people. It is also quite possible that the
unusually gifted child received the musical talents and qual­
ities latent in his ancestral stream.
What Is Biological Atavism?
The dictionary defines it as follows : "The reappearance
in an individual of characteristics of some remote ancestor
that have been absent in intervening generations." For exam­
ple, Mozart composed music at five years of age. Before he
was consciously aware of the laws of harmony, his subliminal
or subj ective mind knew them ; this is true, also, of all men
everywhere if we would awaken to the great powers within
us.
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Archbishop Whately, who was a mathematical prodigy,
said that as soon as his conscious mind was exercised and
educated, his faculty vanished. He had lost his gift of psychic
perception.
What Is a Genius?
A genius is a man en rapport with his subconscious or
psychic mind. It was through the subconscious that Shake­
speare perceived great truths hidden from the conscious mind
of man. Raphael, in his meditative moods, was in tune with
the psychic powers of his subconscious, enabling him to draw
forth the masterpieces which he called the Madonnas.
Beethoven heard his music in the silence of his soul through
his psychic perception.
Why Do Infant Mathematical Prodigies
Lose Their Gift?
The child is in tune with the subj ective mind; the
subjective mind is amenable to suggestion , and an ordinary
education teaches children to ignore the voice of intuition or
clairvoyance and clairaudience. Instead of being taught to
draw out the wisdom of psychic perception within, the latter
is usually neglected, and the faculty atrophies and disappears.
It could be preserved in the child by having the teacher
impress the child's mind with the fact that he could always
possess the mathematical psychic gift ; that he would grow
and expand as he learned the objective rules, figures, numera­
tion, etc. The subjective mind of the child, being amenable to
suggestion would retain his faculties of psychic perception,
for "according to his beliefs" and those of his teacher,
"would it be done unto him."
Some Remarkable Cases
Ralph Waldo Emerson was studying the classics before
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the children in his neighborhood had learned to read. There is
nothing mysterious or supernatural about that. His ancestors
were spiritually oriented and lovers of psychic knowledge.
Undoubtedly, the mood of his parents at the moment of
conception influenced and brought about the proper genetic
influence also.
John Stuart Mill learned Greek at three years of age, and
at the age of seven had read Plato in the original , as well as
the works of Gibbon and Hume.
My father, who was a principal of a school in the south
of Ireland, was amazed at a boy of 1 2 who immediately
understood any mathematical problem or algebraic equation.
He could see through the most abstruse problem of mathe­
matics and tell the answer without writing down a single
figure. My father recommended him to the local Bishop, who
saw that he was educated in the Se minary. He subsequently
became a Jesuit priest , and is now teaching mathematics in
the Far East. Looking back now, I am convinced the boy was
clairvoyant.
Realize a Great Truth
Anything any man has done, any other man can do.
God is within all men, and God is indivisible ; therefore, all
that is necessary is for man to awaken to and mentally
accept completely these limitless psychic powers within him.
Your S torehouse of Memory
Your subconscious mind is a storehouse of memory, and
can be used to furnish you with any date or information you
have ever read. Solomon, a Lithuanian Rabbi, had such a
remarkable memory that he never forgot what he read. He
knew the Bible and the Talmud by heart, and he could quote
easily any passage requested. What he did, you can do. This is
fundamental and axiomatic through psychic awareness or
perception.
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Many of you are familiar with the writings o f Edgar
Cayce. I heard him lecture a few times and was very much
impressed by his sincerity and simplicity. He could memorize
the contents of a book without ever looking at it. Your
psychic perception can see without human eyes. Cayce was
certainly clairvoyant and clairaudient. These faculties are iii
all of us, even though they may be dormant. We can develop
them and quicken them. This has nothing to do with being
born again and again in physical bodies. We do not grow or
awaken in sidereal time and space. We must ascend the
perpendicular beam within us, go up the hill of God where
dwells the Living Spirit, timeless, spaceless, and ageless,
where all things are known-the presence of God within us.
Edgar Cayce had very little ordinary school education.
Tuning in on the subconscious mind in a sleep or trance state,
he was able to diagnose the ills of patients in any p art of the
world; he was able to prescribe medicines and describe
anatomical lesions, even though he knew nothing about
materia medica, pharmacology, or the practice of medicine.
He simply tapped the universal subconscious or psychic
mind, and according to his belief was it done unto him. All
the healings that followed were based on belief.
He was also able to place a book under his pillow and
recite the contents verbatim. It is said that he could speak
over a dozen languages in the trance state. After all is said
and done, all languages ever spoken are in your sub conscious
mind, because you are one with the universal subconscious or
unconscious. Undoubtedly, Edgar Cayce was also clair­
audient, and he could have tuned in with doctors in the next
dimension of life or extracted all his answers from the
universal subconscious. He could have heard the voices or
words of surgeons, osteopaths, and pharmacologists in the
next dimension which no one else heard. His faculty of
psychic awareness or perception was the foundation of his
great powers.
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Why Is There Inequality at Birth?
Frequently I receive letters saying, "Why is it some are
born so poor and others are born into the lap of luxury?
Some children are terribly handicapped and others not?"
Many people are confused as to the meaning of rich and
poor. Many people are poor in love, joy, faith, confidence
laughter, and goodwill. Riches are of the mind. You are rich
when you know you can tap the intelligence and wisdom of
-your subconscious psychic mind and bring your desires to
pass. You are rich when your mind is full of peace, joy, love,
confidence, and faith in the goodness of God in the land of
the living.
Let us look at the case of Helen Keller. To say that her
birth was an injustice or that she was being punished for a
foul deed she had perpetrated on someone in a former life is
wholly irrational, illogical, and most unscientific. Some say it
was an inj ustice, because she was deprived of her sense of
sight and hearing in infancy. She had a nurse, however, who
used love and discipline, and Helen began to use the riches of
her mind. Her eyes were enabled to "see" probably better
than most people the color of all the pageantry in the opera ;
her deaf ears, in a similar manner, could "hear" the cre­
scendos, diminuendos, and the full volume of orchestral
music. She was aware of the clear notes of the lyric soprano.
This is psychic perception.
History reveals the countless others who had all manner
of afflictions, physical defects, and financial handicaps, yet
they accomplished outstanding achievements in science, art,
music, industry, and religion. Think about the count.le�
numbers of people born into the lap of luxury, perfect
specimens of humanity, many born with the proverbial
golden spoon in their mouths. Ask yourself if they have
accomplished as much good or have risen to such greatness as
did those we mentioned who were born with poverty, illne�,
deformity, and all manner of handicaps
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Would you insist that all these men and women whom I
have mentioned must return again and again in order to
receive j ustice? E. Henley, tortured by pain and a lingering
sickness, said : " . . . I thank whatever gods may be for my
unconquerable soul." Your soul is Spirit, and Spirit is God.
In reality you are invulnerable and invincible. You are God
walking the earth if you but exercise your psychic gift of
perception.
How Some Look at Justice
There are many people who believe that because a man
is born into vast riches, he will have to return here again on
earth born into poverty to equalize things or to bring j ustice.
Here they are talking about money, wealth, holdings, earthly
possessions, etc. Justice is equitableness, righteousness,
making things balance. The law is always eminently fair and
just. "As a man soweth so shall he reap ." This operates in the
next dimension of life as well as here. However, you must
perceive it through your psychic senses.
Reincarnation is not the answer to these questions. That
would be very shallow thinking. You must not look at
externals such as man's body, his environment, his parents,
their wealth, their power or assets. Suppose a boy is born in
Buckingham Palace with all the luxury, riches, and regal
pomp surrounding him. So what? You are simply talking
about externalities and not talking about the real boy who is
a mental and spiritual being, who possesses the Kingdom of
God within him. He will be rich or poor depending on how
he uses the gift of God within him. As he sows so shall he
reap, whether in this three-dimensional life or the next,
which is the fourth dimension, which interpenetrates this
plane and is all around us.
You Are Not a Victim of Karma
From the standpoint of Hinduism and Buddhism, karma
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means action, seen as bringing upon oneself inevitable results,
good or bad, either in this life or in a reincarnation. In
theory, it is the cosmic principle according to which each
person is rewarded or punished in one incarnation according
to his deeds in a previous incarnation. The word ka means to
do, make; and ma is action of, result of
Our Bible says, Whatsoever a man soweth, so that shall
he also reap (Galatians 6 : 7). You are not a victim of the past,
for the simple reason that you can change the present, and
your future will be your present conviction made manifest.
God, the living spirit in you, is timeless and spaceless;
therefore, a new beginning is a new end. When you pray
scientifically, you are not dealing with time and space
theories.
The man we call a murderer, thief, or a person 0f ill
repute could, if he desired, become transformed in the
twinkling of an eye. This could be accomplished by a great
rise in consciousness, accompanied by an intense desire for
God's love and peace.
How to Accept Your Good Now
Dwell on these wonderful words : But if the wicked will
turn from all his sins that he hath committed, an d keep all
my statutes, and do that which is la wful and righ t . . . all his
transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be
mentioned unto h im : in his righ teousness that he hath done
he shall live (Ezekiel 1 8 : 2 1 -22).
You are told in these verses that if a man will forsake
the past and begin to practice right thinking, right feeling,
and right action, he will transform himself. A new beginning
is a new end. Get a new concept of yourself and walk
forward into a new life through psychic perception.
Your Time Is Now
The time of which the average man speaks means his
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relationship to earth in its orbital motion, and the position of
the sun ; it means his relationship to the events of today and
tomorrow.
Einstein said
that
if a
man
is talking to a
beautiful, charming woman, an hour seems like a minute, and
if he sits on a hot stove, 30 seconds seems like an hour,
indicating that time in your mind is your thought, your
feeling, a state of mind.
The ideal of your heart exists now. It is a concrete,
living reality in the next dimension of mind. That book or
play you plan to write is already in your mind. Affirm, "I
accept the fulfillment of my desire completely now, and I
rest in the conviction that my subconscious will bring it to
pass." Remain faithful and you will experience the joy o f the
answered prayer. This is the psychic and perceptive approach. •
The Author's View of Reincarnation
The time has come for scientific thinkers to make a
clear-cut decision as to what to do with the millstone labelled
" Reincarnation," which is discovered hanging from both
Oriental and Occidental necks.
The theory of reincarnation is melioristic ; that is, man is
becoming better by the slow, exoteric process of putting on
and off different habiliments of flesh and emotions. A man
can come back a thousand times through wombs of various
mothers, but growth and illumination do not take place in
time or space. Growth and illumination take place by the
transformation of the mind in tune with the Infinite, which is
timeless and spaceless, and where all good subsists now.
Accept the challenge : "Be ye transformed by the renewal of
your mind."
We must not capitulate to a racial error perpetuated by
the pronouncements of Eastern creeds and dogmas. Einstein
has toppled the false gods of time and space. Today we know
that spirit and matter are one. The scientific, mental thinkers
look at the theory of reincarnation from a new standpoint
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altogether. They start with "the pattern on the Mount,"
wherein man is one with God.
We must cease building an edifice based on a slow-paced
dream wherein millions of human beings-east and west-have
been laid in the procrustean bed of karma and reincarnation
to arise retailored in garments ill-befitting an invited guest to
all the treasures of life within him. By believing in the theory
of reincarnation, or countless cycles of carnal rebirths, you
are drifting from safe mooring and placing bondage, restric­
tion, and thralldom on yourself, for it is done unto you as
you believe.
Let us have a declaration of emancipation from all the
limited traditions and false beliefs of man-no matter how
time-honored on Oriental altars. Let us cleanse our minds of
all karmic, purgational fires by true faith and conviction of
God's love and healing presence now, instantly available ; and
let us press on to the virgin fields of wisdom, truth, and
beauty. We must not be deterred by a mirage of mere
meliorism. All unworthy concepts must go into the limbo of
spiritual ignorance ; foremost among these stand this theory
of reincarnation, whereby progress is decreed by age-old,
earthbound thinking.
Jesus said : The kingdom of God cometh not with
observation. Neither shall they say, Lo here! or lo there!
(Luke 1 7 : 20, 2 1 ). The kingdom of life , love, truth, beauty,
and all the powers of the God-head are within you now.
When he declared : Behold, now is the accepted time (II Cor.
6: 2). Believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them
(Mark 1 1 : 24). Before A braham was, I am (John 8 : 5 8). Was
he not collapsing time and space relative to redeeming man
from the thralldom of erroneous Oriental and Occidental
beliefs?
Free yourself mentally from the belief in self-imposed
fleshly, psychologically imprisoning embodiments. The "sons
of God" must "leap for j oy" beneath "the morning stars" of
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light, love, truth and beauty, which light up· the heavens of
your mind.
Karma, or reaping what you have sown, turns out to be
inexorable only as long as you do not pray or meditate on
the truths of God. As soon as you pray, you rise above
karma, and the unpleasant consequences of past mistakes
begin to be wiped out. No matter how awful the crime-be it
murder or any other heinous offense-it can be expunged
from the mind together with all the punishment that would
ordinarily follow. · Perfunctory prayer will not change mat­
ters. A deep hunger and thirst for God's love and grace, plus
an intense desire to transform, are essential to wipe out the
punishment that mµst otherwise follow negative an d destruc­
tive thinking.
God's love passes all understanding, and it does illumine
the path we tread. The wonders and blessings of God know
no ending. Your journey is ever onward, upward, and
Godward. You go from glory to glory, from mansion to
mansion in our Father's house of many mansions. Life is
progression. You are on an endless journey. Rejoice in your
journey back to the One, the Beautiful, and the Good ; there
is no place else to go. It is the flight of the Alone to the
Alone.
With a new vision , religion and science may both
understand the mystic overtones of this ancient Hebrew
meditation by affirming and believing the following :
Of all existence I am the source
The continuation and the end.
I am the germ ;
I am the growth ;
I am the decay.
All things and creatures I send forth ;
I support them while they yet stand without ;
And when the dream of separation ends,
I cause their return unto myself.
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I am the Life,
And the wheel of the Law,
And the way that leadeth to the Beyond.
There is none else.
As you sharpen your focus of psychic perception as
given you in this book, you will be organizing the full forces
of your mind to achieve what you desire.
POINTS TO REMEMBER
1 . There is one mind common to all individual men. A
complete memory of all the experiences of the race
is within the universal subconscious and may be
tapped by you when you are en rapport with it
through psychic perception.
2. Your subconscious mind does not reason induc­
tively or argue controversially with you. It reasons
deductively only and brings your premise (true or
false) to what seems to be a logical conclusion
based on the nature of the suggestion you give it.
3. In the hypnotic state, you will usually give the
operator what he wants ; i.e. , if he believes that you
have lived before and makes that suggestion to you,
your subconscious will respond accordingly and
weave a mosaic of fantasy and make-believe which
is impossible to verify objectively.
4. If you give your subconscious mind a powerful
suggestion prior to hypnosis that you do not believe
and that you will not respond, and if your sugges­
tion is more powerful than that of the hypnotist, he
will not get results. Your subconscious accepts the
dominant of two ideas.
5. Regression into past lives through hypnotic experi­
ments results in a fictionized dramatization based
on what you have read, heard, and experienced.
Your subconscious is a master weaver and will
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invent a sort of composite story or picture correlat­
ing with the nature o f the suggestion given it in the
trance state.
i5. Your subconscious mind contains mental experi­
ences and reactions of the ages. I t is possible for a
true clairvoyant to look back in time and see
George Washington kneeling at Valley Forge. She
could tune in on the mental vibration or mental
picture in the universal screen of the subconscious.
It does not mean that she had actually been George
Washington at one time.
7. You can easily tune in on the vibration of some
previous experience which someone else has had
and think it to be your own. The faculties of
clairvoyance and clairaudience are in all of us even
though dormant. They can be awakened with
psychic perception.
8. It is possible for you while sound asleep to dwell
psychologically in the city or place you wish or
intend to visit; and then when you go there objec­
tively, you see, hear, and experience what you did
subjectively. Therefore, you may think you were
there before or you have seen that place before, etc.
This is a very common experience. Today this is
called extrasensory travel, which you may have
consciously forgotten about.
9. In traveling, you may meet someone you think you
have always known. He or she is simply an intimate
of your mood. Our moods have their affinities.
1 0. Remember, Infinite Spirit, Infinite Mind, or what­
ever men call God, the Living Spirit, is within you
and is operating through man and can be perceived
psychically. It has created all things of I tself and
also by means of man, for man is God in ex pres­
sion. This Infinite Mind has experienced all things,
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knows all and sees all, and as you tune in with the
Infinite, you will gradually awaken, using psychic
perception, te the wonders and glories within you.